Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social condi...

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

quote by James Connolly
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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