Carolina QuotesMost of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps. Soon we shall know everything the eighteenth century didn't know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
"On the Underside of the Stone," The New York Times Book Review (23 August 1953), p. 177
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 177
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