sub-structure

Updated: June 22, 2025

For some such scheme, existing but unformulated, is, beyond all doubt, the solid sub-structure of all his thinking. In the essay On History in Travel, Mr. Belloc says: "It is true that those who write good guide-books do put plenty of history into them, but it is sporadic history, as it were; it is not continuous or organic, and therefore it does not live."

C. Creighton Mandell - Hilaire Belloc: The Man and His Work