Carolina QuotesThe aristocratic mind … is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
“Two Types of American Individualism,” The Modern Age, Spring 1963, p. 127.
- work
- Life Without Prejudice (1965)
- year
- 1963
- locator
- p. 127
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