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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000070.txt from 2005/02

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:18:31 -0500


"What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called=20
Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stick out above all=20=
others.=20
One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence=E2=80=94his congen=
ital=20
inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolatin=
g a=20
bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to=
=20
fears and alarms=E2=80=94in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no=
record in=20
history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allie=
s."

-H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880=E2=80=931956) U.S. journalist
repr. In Prejudices, Fourth Series (1924), =E2=80=9CThe Anglo-Saxon,=E2=80=
=9D Baltimore=20
Evening Sun (July 16, 1923) =20

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