There are only two great diseases in the world to-day—Bolshevism and…

There are only two great diseases in the world to-day—Bolshevism and Americanism; and Americanism is the worse of the two, because Bolshevism only smashes your house or your business or your skull, but Americanism smashes your soul.

D.H. Lawrence

The Plumed Serpent · 1926

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Lawrence, D.H. The Plumed Serpent. Martin Secker, 1926, ch. 2.

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