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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 17
…s is the best evidence in support of my thesiswhatever that is, I am not quite sure that it is possible to adduce. In the minds of the kind of people who believe in their neighbours making candles of infants fat and digging up corpses to economise on the butchers bill, the surgeonthat is to say, the man in pursuit of knowledge which it is hoped may alleviate human painis the same kind of animal as the witch and the ritual-murdering Jew. It is, no doubt, because it is a part of the old taboo complex about the corpses of ones relatives,
1930 · PDF PAGE 10
… held unchallenged sway over those portions of this globe which it had sufficiently corrupted, the pursuit of knowledgeknowledge of any kindwas justly estimated by the people in power as the one and only dangerous pursuit. Even so, as late as 300 years ago, it was not considered very gentlemanly to be able to read and write. I am not sure that it is. In any case, it is a great error in education to teach these things. Grammar, we must never forget, appears in the word Gramarye, beloved of Sir Walter Scott, and grimoire, a black magical …
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
…failure, to com- municate knowledge which usually the lecturer does not possess. I am sure that we all recognize that an attempt of this kind is impossible in nature. No ! I am not proposing to inflict upon you my celebrated discourse on Scepticism of the Instrument of Mind. I am not even going to refer to the first and last lecture which I suffered at a dud university some- where near Newmarket, in which the specimen of old red sandstone in the rostrum began by remarking that political economy was a very difficult subject to theorize upon beca…
1930 · PDF PAGE 16
…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