As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and … - H. L. Mencken

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My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.

H. L. Mencken

As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized. . . The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.

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