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A slide show of images to aid with reading Henry Adams' chapter "The Dynamo and the Virgin" from _The Education of Henry Adams_.
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Henry Adams
Dynamos
STEAM, ENGINE HOUSE
ELECTRIC CURRENT
DYNAMO converts, transmits
CROSS
CATHEDRAL
mystery, awe?????
Branly Coherer
The first X-ray (Roentgen Ray)
“The nearest approach to the revolution of 1900 was that of 310, when Constantine set up the Cross.”
Statue of the Virgin at Lourdes
STEAM, ENGINE HOUSE
ELECTRIC CURRENT
DYNAMO
CROSS
CATHEDRAL
VIRGIN, FEMALE
mystery, awe
American, banal, artless
Medieval Europe, beauty
Symbol as Force Symbol as Force
General Sherman St. Gaudens
Adams Monument by St. Gaudens
Chartres Cathedral
Robert Gould Shaw Memorial St. Gaudens
