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1930 · PDF PAGE 19

The Banned Lecture

…SEN — Price 2s. 6d. ——— A study of the Documentary Evidence relating to a Campaign of Personal Vilification without parallel in Literary History. Ms pamphlet om hows tice by: [The Bololph Printing Works, Gale Stel, Kinga, WE

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1930 · PDF PAGE 8

The Banned Lecture

…gly, to this. Here we have a person who, in almost every respect, was the male equivalent of Joan of Arc. Both of them have gone down in history. But history is somewhat curious. I am still inclined to think that “ there aint no sich animile.” In the time of Shakespeare, Joan of Arc was accepted in England as a symbol for everything vile. He makes her out not only as a sorceress, but a charlatan and hypocrite ; and on top of that a coward, a liar, and a common slut. I suspect that they began to whitewash her when they decided that she was a vir…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 18

The Banned Lecture

…ody-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 world, for painting indecent pictures—takes very much this popular view of medicine and pharmacy in Pickwick. I think, then, it is not altogether unfair to assume that Gilles de Rais was to a large extent the victim of Catholic logic. Catholic logic: and the foul wish- phantasms generated of its repressions, and of its fear and ignorance.…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 7

The Banned Lecture

…ther hypothesis. But when we consider the character of Napoleon, we are at once involved in a mass of contradictions. Probably no one in history has been more discussed, and every writer gives a totally different account. Each seeks to buttress his opinion by incidents which we have no reason to suppose other than authentic, but seem incongruous. So far as we can get any truth out of the matter at all, it is that the character of Napoleon, like that of everybody who ever lived, was extremely complex. And the writers are more or less in the posi…

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