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1930 · PDF PAGE 4

The Banned Lecture

… explains how it was that he became a dirty little atheist, and repented on his death-bed, and died blaspheming. No ! No ! that would be quite impossible bad manners. I shall assume that you know everything about Gilles de Rais ; and that being the case, it would evidently be impertinent for me to tell you anything about him. So that we can consider the lecture at an end, and (after the usual vote of thanks) pass on immediately to the discussion, which I think ought to be more amusing, if scarcely as informative.

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1930 · PDF PAGE 6

The Banned Lecture

…ven event, if only because those causes are infinite, and each one of them is to a certain extent an efficient determining cause. Take a quite simple matter like the time of year. If it had been winter instead of summer, the

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1930 · PDF PAGE 18

The Banned Lecture

…n. I think it is about time that somebody got after J. B. S. Haldane. It is too late to do anything more to Ridley and Latimer, but I am quite sure that the candle they lit was made of infants’ fat. It is no use your starting to rifle Graves, because his publishers might resent your interference. Those in favour of the motion will now please signify the same in the usual manner. And may the Lord have mercy on your souls !

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1930 · PDF PAGE 17

The Banned Lecture

… witchcraft. It is called “ The Surgeon’s Warning.” I think this is the best evidence in support of my thesis—whatever 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 butcher’s bill, the surgeon—that is to say, the man in pursuit of knowledge which it is hoped may alleviate human pain—is the same kind of animal as the witch and the ritual-murdering Jew. It is, no doubt, because it is a part of…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 16

The Banned Lecture

…ard another case of the same kind, little more then a century old, with which Jews had nothing to do. There was a poet laureate—I am not quite sure what this species of animal is—but his name was Robert Southey, and he lived, if you can call it

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1930 · PDF PAGE 14

The Banned Lecture

…e bit difficult for anyone to prove that I am responsible for any suicides that may take place in Germany. But, on the other hand, it is quite impossible for me to dis- prove it. So now, if you want to attack anybody without the slightest fear of contradiction, you know how to set to work.

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