| Author Quoted | Lewis Mumford |
| Title Quoted | Culture of Cities |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1941/11/27 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1938I |
| Quotation | Or do I want to go to Gethsemani because it is a perfect society, even in the natural order? Is it because last night, reading Mumford's Culture of Cities I got very depressed with the rottenness of New York? I think that made me want to be in Harlem, though-the most desperate of all places, to preach God! |
| Journal | Run to the mountain: The Story of a Vocation. The journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 1, 1939-1941.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1995, p. 456 |
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