Ah, yes, the American soul according to D.H. Lawrence: cold, stoic, isolate, a killer. (That would be Natty Bumpo.) I find this sort of piece unhelpful. It is

Ah, yes, the American soul according to D.H. Lawrence: cold, stoic, isolate, a killer. (That would be Natty Bumpo.) I find this sort of piece unhelpful. It is full of generalities that seem more or less plausible, yet which can't be verified or refuted.