The Limitations of Transcendence

Abstract

During recent years, Lawrence had developed further his feeling for all animated life—including the life of flowers—with particular attention to the need to recognize the distinction between vegetative patterns of growth and the activities of animated organisms. But shrinking from the mechanized horror of the First World War, with little sign that its self-inflicted destruction might ever come to an end, had caused him to turn his eyes to North America, across the Atlantic Ocean, and to ask whether the true signs of hope for humanity lay there.