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…ople. What bothered him was this : what assumption was he to make about the existing knowledge of the audience ? He adopted the sensible course of asking the advice of an old hand at the game ; and was told You must do one of two things. You may assume that they know everything, or that they know nothing. Thomas Henry thought it over, and decided that he would assume that they know nothing. I think that merely shows how badly brought up he must have been ; and explains how it was that he became a dirty little atheist, and repented on his dea…
1930 · PDF PAGE 9
…sion ; in fact, the main point. What is the most precise and most atrocious charge that is made against him ? That he sacrificed, in the course of Alchemical and magical experiments, a matter of 800 children ? I submit that, a priori, this sounds a little improbable. Gilles de Rais was the lord of a district whose population could not have been very extensive, and even in that age of slavery, dirt, disease, debauchery, poverty and ignorance, which seems to Mr. G. K. Chesterton the one ideal state of society, it must have been a little difficult…
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
…the Middle Ages, the art of exciting the people was not very different. The Jew had always an immense hoard of ill-gotten wealth, and of course every penny that was exacted by Reginald Front-de- Boeuf was laid to the Jews account. But there was another treasure that the peasant was afraid to lose, the dearest treasure of all, his children. As little boys, thank God, have a habit of straying in search of adventure and getting lost in the process, which is good for their souls, the peasant naturally has moments of serious disquietude as to wheth…
1930 · PDF PAGE 16
…nder cross- examination, in the style made popular by the dialogue of Lot with Almighty God, admitted that it was Tom and another. Of course, it will be obvious to you by this time that I have been seduced by Jewish gold, and the only way that I can think of to disarm your suspicions is to bring forward another case of the same kind, little more then a century old, with which Jews had nothing to do. There was a poet laureateI am not quite sure what this species of animal isbut his name was Robert Southey, and he lived, if you can call it
1930 · PDF PAGE 12
… and soul ; and not one of them said that aught of the things that he possessed was his own, but that they had all things in common. Of course one of them, and he too was a Jew, tried to hold out on the kitty, and was struck miraculously dead for his pains. Lenin and Trotsky never did as well ! 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 thereforewell, the Pope too believed i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
…dum variety. It is pro- duced out of nowhere for a definite purpose ; and, as the French say, does not rime with anything. If it did, of course, it would immediately be exposed as nonsense. It is satisfied that nobody can disprove it any more than they can prove it. Take a concrete example. A nice young gentle- man the other day wanted (very properly) to earn his living, and not being peculiarly endowed by Nature in the matter of original invention, he thought he might make a story out of the idea of a Suicide Club. In this he was evidently cor…