show-structures

Updated: May 18, 2025

And what did they amount to, after all? They were practical men, these! they had no great problems of thought to settle, no questions that rose above the ordinary rules of common morals and homely duty. How they had managed to befog the subject! What elaborate show-structures they had built up, with no result but to obscure the horizon! Would not the country have done better without them?

Henry Adams - Democracy, an American novel