 ... Sahara Desert. There are single acres in Europe that house more first-rate men than all the states south of the Potomac; there are probably single square miles in America. If the whole of the late Confederacy were to be engulfed by a tidal wave tomorrow,...  Prejudices: Second Series - Page 137by Henry Louis Mencken - 1920 - 254 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1925 - 604 pages
...Confederacy were to be engulfed by a tidal wave tomorrow, the effect upon the civilized minority of men In the world would be but little greater than that...be impossible in all history to match so complete a drying up of a civilization. In all that gargantuan paradise of the fourth-rate, there is not a single... | |
 | 1925 - 582 pages
...Confederacy were to be engulfed by a tidal wave tomorrow, the effect upon the civilized minority of men in the world would be but little greater than that of a flood on the Yang-tee-Kiang. It would be impossible in all history to match so complete a drying up of a civilization.... | |
 | James Weldon Johnson - 1995 - 478 pages
...Confederacy were to be engulfed by a tidal wave tomorrow, the effect on the civilized minority of men in the world would be but little greater than that...to match so complete a drying-up of a civilization. In all that section there is not a single poet, not a serious historian, not a creditable composer,... | |
 | Larry J. Griffin, Don Harrison Doyle - 1995 - 326 pages
...engulfed by a tidal wave tomorrow, the effect upon the civilized minority of men in the world would be little greater than that of a flood on the Yang-tse-kiang....to match so complete a drying-up of a civilization. 31 What we see here, and see without any varnish, is a South defined by its spiritual and intellectual... | |
 | James Charles Cobb - 1999 - 268 pages
...to rubble. For him, the period of southern history since Appomattox could be summed up succinctly: "It would be impossible in all history to match so complete a drying up of a civilization."48 Mencken's disciples largely spurned the historical approach as well.... | |
 | Cathy Boeckmann - 2000 - 260 pages
...[the South] is almost as sterile, artistically, intellectually, culturally, as the Sahara Desert. ... It would be impossible in all history to match so complete a drying up of a civilization. In all that section there is not a single poet, not a serious historian,... | |
 | Manning Marable - 2003 - 766 pages
...Confederacy were to be engulfed by a tidal wave tomorrow, the effect on the civilized minority of men in the world would be but little greater than that...to match so complete a drying-up of a civilization. In all that section there is not a single poet, not a serious historian, not a creditable composer,... | |
 | Robert Jackson - 2005 - 194 pages
...Confederacy were to be engulfed by a tidal wave tomorrow, the effect upon the civilized minority of men in the world would be but little greater than that...to match so complete a drying-up of a civilization. (185) Had such a denunciation come from someone else, perhaps a critic from the industrial Northeast,... | |
 | Kieran Quinlan - 2005 - 312 pages
...engulfed by a tidal wave tomorrow, the effect upon the civilized minority of men in the world would be little greater than that of a flood on the Yang-tse-kiang....to match so complete a drying-up of a civilization. In attempting to explain this dearth of culture, Mencken recommends that we turn to the ethnologists... | |
 | Fred Hobson - 2005 - 234 pages
...Confederacy were to be engulfed by a tidal wave tomorrow, the effect upon the civilized minority of men in the world would be but little greater than that of a flood on the Yang-tse-kiang. And Mencken had hardly warmed up, had not yet turned to the primary focus of his essay—the scarcity... | |
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