The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.
Henry AdamsIn practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
Henry AdamsWe shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.
Henry Adams