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… which I feel certain is that 800 children is a lot. I dont know over how many years these practices were supposed to have spread. As I think you must all feel sure by now, I know nothing what- ever of my subject. But scientific experiment in those days was always a very prolonged operation. They thought nothing of exposing some unknown substance to the rays of the sun and moon for periods of three months at a time, in the hope that in some mysterious way the first stage of some dimly-visaged operation might be satisfactorily accomplished. And…
1930 · PDF PAGE 8
…ed of the same crimes as Joan of Arc by the same people who accused her, and that he was condemned by them to the same penalty. I do not think that I have left out any verifiable fact. I think that all the rest amounts to speculation. The real problem of Gilles de Rais amounts, accord- ingly, 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 Sh…
1930 · PDF PAGE 4
…ey 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 ! 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 co…
1930 · PDF PAGE 18
…nt, of all people in the world, for painting indecent picturestakes 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. He wanted to confer to a boon on humanity ; therefore he consorted with the learned ; therefore he murdered little children. I think it is about time that somebody got after J. B. S. H…
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
…., and demonstrate that the life and opinions of Gilles de Rais were inevitably determined by the price of onions in Hyderabad. But I do think that in ap- proaching a historic question, we should be very careful to define what we meanin our particular
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
…Devil coming for the villain at the proper moment. This poem has nothing to do with witchcraft. It is called The Surgeons Warning. I think this 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 …