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Analyze the Education of Henry Adams's chapter, "The Dynamo and the Virgin," where he talked about the conflict between a society based in faith and a society based in science. What were some of the general issues between those two forces?

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When Henry Adams talked about the conflict between a society based in faith and one based in science some of the general issues between these two forces were each force had nothing in common but attraction. They were as different as a magnet is from gravitation (http://cambridgeforecast.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/henry-adams-the-virgin-the-dynamo/, 2011) . He was accentuating how two forces that quintessentially were polar opposites, each attempting to explain the human purpose in two separate paradigms, and each readily hostile toward one another are invariably attached to each other because of humans as the purveyor of their respective forces.

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