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1930 · PDF PAGE 12

The Banned Lecture

New Testaments from your pockets, you will find in the fourth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles and the thirty-second verse : “ And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart 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 mon…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 3

The Banned Lecture

… a goose woe began : Quoth Huss—which means “ goose ” in his idiom un- polished— “ Ye burn now a Goose: there succeeds mea Swan Ye shall find quench your fire ! ” Fust. I forsee such a man. (Browning.)

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1930 · PDF PAGE 10

The Banned Lecture

…st the interests of the Church, and in those times it was much easier to suppress people and ideas than it is now, though even to-day we find priests—at least in Oxford—who appear not to have heard of a certain recent invention by a notorious Magician inspired by the Devil—the Printing Press. But they feared. So those who pursued know-

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1930 · PDF PAGE 18

The Banned Lecture

… to dissect. For at that time, it will be remembered, hospitals were not as flourishing as they are to-day, and it was very difficult to find living people whom you could cut up to see what came of it. The surgeon was, in fact, not understood at all, except in the one way which such people were capable of understanding ; i.e., as the body-snatcher. The rest of his proceedings were perfectly mysterious to them. You notice that even Charles Dickens—who may yet go down to history for having wished to prosecute Holman Hunt, of all people in the wor…

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