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1930 · PDF PAGE 18

The Banned Lecture

…n surgeons concentrated itself on one fact—the fact that to learn to be a surgeon you must have corpses to dissect. For at that time, it will be remembered, hospitals were not as flourishing as they are to-day, and it was very difficult to find living people whom you could cut up to see what came of it. The surgeon was, in fact, not understood at all, except in the one way which such people were capable of understanding ; i.e., as the body-snatcher. The rest of his proceedings were perfectly mysterious to them. You notice that even Charles Dick…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 3

The Banned Lecture

…ive 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 come flying from Jew, Moor and Turk. When, goosequill, thy reign o’er the world is abolished ? Goose—ominous name ! With a goose woe began : Quoth Huss—which means “ goose ” in his idiom un- polished— “ Ye burn now a Goose: there succeeds mea Swan Ye shall find quench your fire ! ” Fust. I forsee such a man. (Browning.)

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1930 · PDF PAGE 11

The Banned Lecture

…the spirit of a people unconquerable in arms ? What but the spread of the slave morality of the Jewish communists of the period ? If you will take your

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1930 · PDF PAGE 16

The Banned Lecture

… 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 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 12

The Banned Lecture

New Testaments from your pockets, you will find in the fourth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles and the thirty-second verse : “ And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and soul ; and not one of them said that aught of the things that he possessed was his own, but that they had all things in common.” Of course one of them, and he too was a Jew, tried to hold out on the kitty, and was struck miraculously dead for his pains. Lenin and Trotsky never did as well ! So, as Roman Catholics are always telling us, the Church has a mon…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 14

The Banned Lecture

…em to go out and murder a lot of inoffensive people at the word jump. They had to be supplied with something a little more tangible. You will notice how all this sort of argument is invariably of the ad captandum variety. It is pro- duced out of nowhere for a definite purpose ; and, as the French say, does not rime with anything. If it did, of course, it would immediately be exposed as nonsense. It is satisfied that nobody can disprove it any more than they can prove it. Take a concrete example. A nice young gentle- man the other day wanted (ve…

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