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Van Wyck Brooks: If men were...

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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

Source: From a Writer's Notebook, 1957.
-- Van Wyck Brooks, (Feb 16 1886-1963), US literary critic, cultural historian; He saw literature as an outgrowth of a national culture; wrote America's Coming of Age, 1915.


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