The Essential American Soul - A Quotation by D.H. Lawrance

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

D.H. Lawrence

English writer D.H. Lawrence's prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, and literary criticism. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization.

Note: This was written in the 1830s.