George William Russell Quote

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.


Co-operation and Nationality: A Guide for Rural Reformers from this to the Next Generation (ed. 1913)


People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, ...

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, ...

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, ...

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, ...