change / the same
Posted: January 27, 2021 Filed under: America Since 1945, business, New England 1 Comment

That’s Van Wyck Brooks, going off in The Flowering of New England about the generation of the 1840s.

That’s Van Wyck Brooks, going off in The Flowering of New England about the generation of the 1840s.
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It does my heart good to see dear old Van Wyck Brooks quoted in the Helysphere! I love that further down the page he described the younger generation (of the 1840s!) as mystics. The “new age” reaction against materialism and reductionism goes back so much further than is commonly realized!