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Sadly rather prophetic

Last updated on: March 6, 2017 at 11:53 pm by Dan Peterson

A view of Mount Saint Michael in France — I first became aware of Henry Adams (the very literary son of Charles Francis Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and great-grandson of John Adams and Abigail Adams) when, as a young teenager, I somehow came across his 1913 book “Mont-Saint-Michele and Chartres,” from which this plate comes. (Wikimedia Commons public domain)

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Henry Adams (1838-1918)

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