This thinker defined "force" as something that produces work and "progress" as "the development and economy of forces" in postulating a "dynamic theory of history." He coupled this with a theory about the exponential increase in civilization's technological proficiency he termed the "law of acceleration." One of his theories was prompted by his time wandering through the intense heat at the (*) Paris Exposition of 1900. That theory holds that attractive force of the medieval Catholic Church produces more unity than the current many faceted worl
This thinker defined "force" as something that produces work and "progress" as "the development and economy of forces" in postulating a "dynamic theory of history." He coupled this with a theory about the exponential increase in civilization's technological proficiency he termed the "law of acceleration." One of his theories was prompted by his time wandering through the intense heat at the (*) Paris Exposition of 1900. That theory holds that attractive force of the medieval Catholic Church produces more unity than the current many faceted world of technology. This thinker probed some of these ideas in his book Mont Saint Michel and Chartres but exposed them directly in the chapter The Dynamo and the Virgin. For 10 points, name this American author of an autobiographical "education," the grandson of the second president.
This thinker defined "force" as something that produces work and "progress" as "the development and economy of forces" in postulating a "dynamic theory of history."
{Henry Brooks Adams} [prompt on “{Adams}”]