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| | 33. A Dynamic Theory of History (1904). Adams, Henry. 1918. The Education of Henry Adams |
 | | The efforts to explain, or explain away, this scandal had been incessant, but none suited Adams unless it were the economic theory of adverse exchanges and exhaustion of minerals; but nations are not ruined beyond a certain point by adverse exchanges, and Rome had by no means exhausted her resources. |
 | | A dynamic law requires that two massesnature and manmust go on, reacting upon each other, without stop, as the sun and a comet react on each other, and that any appearance of stoppage is illusive. |
 | | The theory seems to exact excess, rather than deficiency, of action and re-action to account for the dissolution of the Roman Empire, which should, as a problem of mechanics, have been torn to pieces by acceleration. |
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