The Spirit of Place
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"What did the Pilgrim Fathers come for, then, when they came so gruesomely over the black sea? Oh, it was in a black spirit. A black revulsion from Europe, from the old authority of Europe, from kings and bishops and popes. And more. When you look into it, more. They were black, masterful men, they wanted something else. No kings, no bishops maybe. Even no God Almighty. But also, no more of this new "humanity" which followed the Renaissance. None of this new liberty which was to be so pretty in Europe. Something grimmer, by no means free-and-easy."--"The Spirit of Place" (1923) by D. H. Lawrence |
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"The Spirit of Place" (1923) by is an essay by D. H. Lawrence.
It is collected in Studies in Classic American Literature.
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