Henry Adams Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918
Birthday: February 16
Death: March 27
The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.
source: Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.237, Penguin
topic: Men, Direct Action, Space
