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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 3
…efines as by fire, and, him silenced, alls said. Whereas if in future I pen an opuscule Defing retort, as of old when rash tongues Were easy to tamestraight some knave of the Hussite School Prints answer forsooth ! Stop invisible lungs ? The barrel of blasphemy broached once, who brings ? SECOND FRIEND. 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…
1930 · PDF PAGE 13
…gathered themselves in panic-stricken crowds in the Square of St. Mark and waited, howling, for the end of the world. It was accordingly easy enough to associate the pursuit of knowledge with the most abominable crimes, real or imaginary or both. For this reason, we hearnot as a demonstrated thesis, but as a commonplace of inherited knowledgethat Jews were sorcerers and wizards. In other words, they know something about grammar. We heard that they transformed themselves into cats or bats, and sucked peoples big toes. I have never, personally…
1930 · PDF PAGE 12
…whenever they gave the word. And what was the word to be ? Nice quiet peasant folk, or genial hard-working hunters and fighters, are not easy to arouse to indis- criminate slaughter without reason. In order to get them going, there are only two things which you can play ongreed and fear. The motive behind the Crusades was the story of the fabulous wealth of the East. We find, in fact, that well-organised armies of buccaneers, such as the Templars, did bring back incalculable spoils, while the honest pious mugs ruined themselves in the process.
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
…vative myself)the instinct of some people, who at the bottom of their hearts, did not so much believe in these phantasms. It was not so easy to get them 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. …