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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 17
…s, a set of instruments very ill-adapted to the purpose. But, anyway, he called it a poem, and the title was something to do with the old woman of Berkeley and who rode behind her. The person who rode behind her was Mr. Montague Summers friend, the Devil. What she actually did to merit this favour is to me rather obscure, because I have forgotten the whole beastly thing. But I do remem- ber two lines, because I am in the same line of business myself. I have candles made of infants fat, I have feasted on rifled graves. Southey was an ambiti…
1930 · PDF PAGE 3
…ut piles faggots instead, Refines as by fire, and, him silenced, alls said. Whereas if in future I pen an opuscule Defing retort, as of old when rash tongues Were easy to tamestraight some knave of the Hussite School Prints answer forsooth ! Stop invisible lungs ? The barrel of blasphemy broached once, who brings ? SECOND FRIEND. Does my sermon, next Easter, meet fitting acceptance ? Each captions disputive boy has his quirk. An cuique credendum sit ? Well the Church kept ans In order till Fust set his engine at work ! What trash will…
1930 · PDF PAGE 4
… 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 death-bed, and died blaspheming. No !…
1930 · PDF PAGE 11
… best under strong suspicion of heresy. I need not quote the obvious names. But there were certain bodies of people who did carry on the old knowledge, mostly by oral tradition, and who were perforce tolerated to a certain extent, because even the little knowledge that they did possess was so exceedingly useful. The best way to make armour, or to build Cathedrals, or to heal sickness would enable the Christian to get ahead of his friends. Therefore, although conscience evidently demanded the maximum amount of persecution compatible with the exi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
…n 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 because there were no reliable data. Never would I tell so sad a story on a Monday evening, with the idea of Tuesday already looming darkly in every melancholic mind. I should like to be just friendly and sensible, though it is perhaps too much to expect me to be cheerful. The fact is that I…
1930 · PDF PAGE 16
…he disappearance of the first four hundred, say, put no parents on their guard ? I think, at the best, it is a case of little Tommy who told his mother that there were millions of cats on the wall of the back garden, but under 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 …