James Connolly: 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.

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.

-- James Connolly


		Name: James Connolly Type: Politician Nationality: Scottish Birth: June 5, 1868 Death: May 12, 1916

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