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Title: Damn!
A Book of Calumny

Author: Henry Louis Mencken

Release Date: July 31, 2006 [EBook #18948]

Language: English

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DAMN!

A BOOK OF CALUMNY

BY H. L. MENCKEN

_Third Printing_

PHILIP GOODMAN COMPANY
NEW YORK NINETEEN EIGHTEEN

COPYRIGHT 1918 BY
PHILIP GOODMAN COMPANY

CONTENTS

I Pater Patriae 7

II The Reward of the Artist 9

III The Heroic Considered 10

IV The Burden of Humor 11

V The Saving Grace 13

VI Moral Indignation 14

VII Stable-Names 17

VIII The Jews 19

IX The Comstockian Premiss 22

X The Labial Infamy 23

XI A True Ascetic 28

XII On Lying 30

XIII History 32

XIV The Curse of Civilization 34

XV Eugenics 35

XVI The Jocose Gods 37

XVII War 38

XVIII Moralist and Artist 39

XIX Actors 40

XX The Crowd 45

XXI An American Philosopher 48

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