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ledge were at the 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 compat…
1930 · PDF PAGE 10
…years later it was still possible for Queens to be bulldozed by Presbyterian pulpiteers, but the time was already predictable when their best was for undergraduates to be bluffed by homosexual ecclesiastics. I suppose it is all in the family. While these profound thoughts were producing a hypochondriac obnubilation of my mental faculties, it suddenly occurred to me that after all, I had heard this story before. And I saw the connection. In the pitch-dark ages, when Christianity held unchallenged sway over those portions of this globe which it h…
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
…he 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 as the witch and t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 16
…th the secrecy obviously required. Did the 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 …