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1930 · PDF PAGE 6

The Banned Lecture

universe of discourse—by the word “ knowledge.” May I ask a question ? Does anyone here know the date of the battle of Waterloo ? Pause. (Someone—I bet—tells me “ 1815.”) Thank you very much. To be frank with you, I knew it myself. I did not require information on that particular point. What I asked was, whether anyone know the date. I felt that, if so, it would have created a sympathetic atmosphere. But since we are talking about Waterloo, we may ask ourselves what, roughly speaking, is the extent of our knowledge ? I have heard plenty of theo…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 15

The Banned Lecture

… by the Jews for purposes of ritual murder. The main accusation against Gilles de Rais is therefore just this general accusation against anyone in Christendom who exhibited any desire for know- ledge. Only, in his case, it was concentrated and exaggerated to fantastic lengths by some factor or other on which I feel it useless to speculate. The

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1930 · PDF PAGE 12

The Banned Lecture

…l ! So, as Roman Catholics are always telling us, the Church has a monopoly of logic, and the Pope argued that all Jews were communists. Anyone who had or wanted knowledge must be a Jew, and therefore a communist, and therefore—well, the Pope too believed in preparedness, though he probably called it a programme of disarmament. When people scrap battleships in the name of peace on earth and goodwill to men, it means that they have found battleships useless and too expensive, and that they have found something cheaper and more deadly. So the Cur…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 14

The Banned Lecture

…d that I was the president of the Club and that the Berlin police were after me. Now, I am afraid it would be a little bit difficult for anyone to prove that I am responsible for any suicides that may take place in Germany. But, on the other hand, it is quite impossible for me to dis- prove it. So now, if you want to attack anybody without the slightest fear of contradiction, you know how to set to work.

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