Modern Fallacies Author:Hubert Howe Bancroft An aööfö djapirr tu "UrtroHjiertiori" $2 Hubert tSmuc Uanrruft MODERN FALLACIES PROLOGUE; SATAN, SOLUS jjP O! Is it so, my children"?-and he smiled, plying his ^N tail with complacency. "Is it thus I find you amusing ^~^ yourselves as Moses found his people on Coming down from the Mount?-only I see nothing in your gambolings quite so rational as... more » making for yourselves a golden calf to worship. A somewhat freer indulgence in blood-lust and malevolence than the occasion calls for, is it not? Christian Europe, in the most humane age of the world dehumanized, imbruted, all ablaze in a frenzy of wrath, your songs of happiness turned to hymns of hate, and this, four thousand years from Abraham, two thou-sand years from Christ. An advance in moral uprightness and refinement, truly!-though seemingly a profitless industry breed-ing men for manure. I am surprised,-and pleased, though I take shame in that I have no entertainment to offer you sur-passing this. "Or is it only an infer
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