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1930 · PDF PAGE 3

The Banned Lecture

…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 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 9

The Banned Lecture

…is (or any other person of that place and period) was addicted to black magical practices, for they were all Catholics. The power of the Church was, at that time, absolute, and even research was

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1930 · PDF PAGE 10

The Banned Lecture

…ual—that is to say, any written document. Precious little knowledge filtered through Chris- tianity. It was against the interests of the Church, and in those times it was much easier to suppress people and ideas than it is now, though even to-day we find priests—at least in Oxford—who appear not to have heard of a certain recent invention by a notorious Magician inspired by the Devil—the Printing Press. But they feared. So those who pursued know-

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1930 · PDF PAGE 12

The Banned Lecture

… 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 monopoly of logic, and the Pope argued that all Jews were communists. Anyone who had or wanted knowledge must be a Jew, and therefore a communist, and therefore—well, the Pope too believed in preparedness, though he probably called it a programme of disarmament. When people scrap battleships in the name of peace on earth and goodwill to men, it means that they have found battleships useless and to…

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