Comments on: My September 12 Mentality, II http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3487.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Thu, 24 May 2012 09:36:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Neddy's Palaver http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3487.html/comment-page-1#comment-15275 Neddy's Palaver Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:11:49 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003487.php#comment-15275 <strong>America Works</strong> The mysterious ethos of Americans’ work being almost an end unto itself probably comes from the founding of the ancient colony under British rule. The early adventurers and pioneers had to be both builders and warriors or they could not have sur... America Works

The mysterious ethos of Americans’ work being almost an end unto itself probably comes from the founding of the ancient colony under British rule. The early adventurers and pioneers had to be both builders and warriors or they could not have sur…

]]> By: Ginny http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3487.html/comment-page-1#comment-15274 Ginny Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:15:32 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003487.php#comment-15274 Thank you, Lex. Henry Adams ends his chapter on "Chaos" describing the turn of the century American as working to excess, caring not for money nor power but the task. Adams is both perceptive and irritating. He seemed to see where the next hundred years would go but he didn't seem to see why. And Grossman puts much in context (I wish I could have thought this out more clearly--have read this--when someone in my Sunday School class said Lincoln must be a hypocrite to believe in man's divinity and to fight the Civil War.) Thank you, Lex.
Henry Adams ends his chapter on “Chaos” describing the turn of the century American as working to excess, caring not for money nor power but the task. Adams is both perceptive and irritating. He seemed to see where the next hundred years would go but he didn’t seem to see why. And Grossman puts much in context (I wish I could have thought this out more clearly–have read this–when someone in my Sunday School class said Lincoln must be a hypocrite to believe in man’s divinity and to fight the Civil War.)

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