Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. · PUBLISHED, OCTOBER, 1924 · SET UP, AND ELECTROTYPED BY THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC., BINGHAMTON, N. Y. · PAPER FURNISHED BY W. F. ETHERINGTON & CO., NEW YORK. · PRINTED AND BOUND BY THE PLIMPTON PRESS, NORWOOD, MASS. ·
COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. · PUBLISHED, OCTOBER, 1924 · SET UP, AND ELECTROTYPED BY THE VAIL-BALLOU PRESS, INC., BINGHAMTON, N. Y. · PAPER FURNISHED BY W. F. ETHE...
2. Part 2The effects of this holy war, alas, have differed greatly from those intended. Far from alarming and stampeding the non-Anglo-Saxons upon whom it has been waged, it has actually...
3. Part 3This reluctance for desperate chances and hard odds, so obvious in the military record of the English-speaking nations, is also conspicuous in times of peace. What a man of anot...
4. Part 4That this malice is at the bottom of Prohibition, and not any altruistic yearning to put down the evils of drink, is shown clearly by the fact that most of the State enforcement...
5. Part 5This doctrine of the goodness of God, it seems to me, is no more, at bottom, than an evidence of arrested intellectual development. It does not fit into what we know of the natu...
6. Part 6The truth is, indeed, that the decline in dignity from which the Federal judges now suffer is not wholly due to the external fact of Prohibition; it is due quite as much to thei...
7. Part 7The world has very little sense of humor. It is always wagging its ears solemnly over elaborate jocosities. For 600 years it has gurgled over the “Divine Comedy” of Dante, despi...
8. Part 8The reason for all this is not hard to find. All the superior varieties of men--and even the lowest varieties of city workmen are at least superior to peasants--have simply rid...
9. Part 9I can think of no great city of this world (putting aside Rio de Janeiro, Sydney and San Francisco) that is set amid scenes of greater natural beauty than New York, by which I m...
10. Part 10It is commonly argued by the more impatient and worthy opponents of the Methodist millennium that the Eighteenth Amendment was slipped through Congress and the State legislature...
11. Part 11One of the defects in the American system of government, if so superb a confection of the human mind and heart may be said, without indecency, to have any defects at all, lies i...
12. Part 12An old human delusion, largely fostered by theologians, is the one to the effect that truth has a mysterious medicinal power--that its propagation makes the world better and man...
13. Part 13What the authors of elegies mistake for the collapse of civilization is simply the internal struggle that I have mentioned--the ages-old combat between the haves and the have-no...
14. Part 14Certainly not in this imperial commonwealth of natural kneebenders and marchers in parades. Nowhere else in Christendom, save only in France, is government more extravagant, non...
15. Part 15The Eroica, indeed, was written precisely at the moment when Beethoven became fully conscious of his extraordinary powers--more accurately, of his singular and unchallengeable _...
16. Part 16One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian necromancy is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he...
17. Part 17The young American literatus of today, with publishers ready and eager to give him a hearing, can scarcely imagine the difficulties which beset his predecessor of twenty years a...
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