neo-european

Updated: June 16, 2025

Let me try and state exactly what I have in mind. I mean something that is coming up in America and here and the Scandinavian countries and Russia, a new culture, an escape from the Levantine religion and the Catholic culture that came to us from the Mediterranean. Let me drop Neo-European; let me say Northern. We are Northerners.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Mr. Britling Sees It Through

Section 9 But the conflict of manners and customs that followed the invasion of the English villages by French and Belgian refugees did not always present the immigrants as Catholics and the hosts as "Neo-European." In the case of Mr. Dimple it was the other way round. He met Mr. Britling in Claverings park and told him his troubles....

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Mr. Britling Sees It Through

And played it very much as Madame Van der Pant played it.... "The more I see of our hockey," said Mr. Britling, "the more wonderful it seems to me as a touchstone of character and culture and breeding...." Mr. Manning, to whom he was delivering this discourse, switched him on to a new track by asking what he meant by "Neo-European." "It's a bad phrase," said Mr. Britling. "I'll withdraw it.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Mr. Britling Sees It Through