No Dutch, no English, and therefore no planters, no coolie labour, no cash crops, no systematic exhaustion of our soil. Also no whisky, no Calvinism, no syphilis, no foreign administrators. We were left to go our own way and take responsibility for our own affairs.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Ch. 6
- work
- Island (1962)
- year
- 1962
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“No Dutch, no English, and therefore no planters, no coolie l…” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-FE3E30979C. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/fe3e30979c
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