Henry Adams had a stroke upon hearing the news of the sinking of the Titanic and the Republican Party in 1912, but this was not the decline of the house of Adams from Puritanism to pessimism. Rather, Adams became America's first and most famous prickly Thomist–“Porcupinus Angelicus.”

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