Word: antaeus
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...Philadelphia's aristocracy. The continental poetry of Wyoming, in the second place, emerges with clarity and sublimity; from the grave, racy, accurate talk of cowmen about their animals, to the ineffable silence of mountain ranges. The serious thesis, finally, that men are better outdoors than in; that the Antaeus myth is sober truth; that cities bury their builders' souls, is argued with a militance amply justified by the writer's competence. Few of his countrymen are as civilized as Author Burt...
...village idiot has been reclaimed in thousands of cases. He (or she) rides on the trolley and subway beside you. He works at the next desk, exercises at the next machine, pours tea at any table, walks, talks, transacts, marries, yet is never detected unless somehow cut off, Antaeus-like, from the source of vitality. Cretins must continue their diurnal gland reinforcement or sink back to their deformed, subconscious state by slow, tragic degrees...
After Prof. Shaler's article, readers will probably linger the longest over Mr. Carpenter's clever dialogue on dilettanteism, which is really worthy of close reading. I quote the delightful little summing up of the argument: "The true dilettante is like Antaeus; the oftener you wrestle him out of his prepossessions, the more confirmed does he become in his dilettanteism. The only remedy for eclecticism is more eclecticism...