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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 3
… ? Well the Church kept ans In order till Fust set his engine at work ! What trash will come flying from Jew, Moor and Turk. When, goosequill, thy reign oer the world is abolished ? Gooseominous name ! With a goose woe began : Quoth Husswhich 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.)
1930 · PDF PAGE 13
…way of arranging for protection with people who were too powerful to be bullied, and too good business men to be fooled into killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. So the only motive available was fear, and in those ages where ignorance was fostered with infinite devotion, it was even easier to create a scare about bogies than our propaganda in the recent scrap found it. I was in Venice just before the war, when Halleys comet was around, and although the Pope himself sprinkled holy water over the comet, and sent it his special benedictio…