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May 26, 2006
Chesterton Cont.
And then you come upon passages like this :
from The Victorian Age in Literature
G.K. Chesterton
What the Brontës really brought into fiction was exactly what Carlyle brought into history; the blast of the mysticism of the North. They were of Irish blood settled on the windy heights of Yorkshire; in that country where Catholicism lingered latest, but in a superstitious form; where modern industrialism came earliest and was more superstitious still. The strong winds and sterile places, the old tyranny of barons and the new and blacker tyranny of manufacturers, has made and left that country a land of barbarians.
Posted by Steven Riddle at May 26, 2006 11:26 AM
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