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# Stark Young
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/28506/
- Published: 2013-08-20T06:11:56.000Z
- Updated: 2013-08-20T06:11:56.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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"\[T\]he core of our humanity lies in the belief that the essence of the soul is its mockery of death." Stark Young, "Not in Memoriam, But in Defense," *I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition*.

*I'll Take My Stand* is one of the greatest collection of essays of all time, and that quote is one of the best quotes from that collection.

I even think it's accurate. The soul is the essence of our being, and the essence of the soul is immortality. Hence, it is a mockery of death. Because it mocks death, it gives dignity to our existence. It gives us our humanity.

Young's essay proceeds to touch on a lot of truths that emanate from that core truth: the importance of leisure, the goodness of local attachment, the need to detach oneself from conventional opinion and money. I don't think he talked about the goodness of ale and wine, but he easily could've slipped it in. It would've been a natural off-shoot of the things he writes about.