Henry Adams Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918
Birthday: February 16
Death: March 27
Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.
source: Henry Adams (1999). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1920, OUP Oxford
topic: Order, Clothes, Ego, Thanks To Him
