Damn! A Book of Calumny

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Damn! A Book of Calumny consists of these chapters: Pater Patriæ; The Reward of the Artist; The Heroic Considered; The Burden of Humor; The Saving Grace; Moral Indignation; Stable-Names; The Jews; The Comstockian Premiss; The Labial Infamy; A True Ascetic; On Lying; History; The Curse of Civilization; Eugenics; The Jocose Gods; War; Moralist and Artist; Actors; The Crowd; An American Philosopher; Clubs; Fidelis ad Urnum; A Theological Mystery; The Test of Truth; Literary Indecencies; Virtuous Vandalism; A Footnote on the Duel of Sex; Alcohol; Thoughts on the Voluptuous; The Holy Estate; Dichtung und Wahrheit; Wild Shots; Beethoven; The Tone Art; Zoos; On Hearing Mozart; The Road to Doubt; A New Use for Churches; The Root of Religion; Free Will; Quid est Veritas?; The Doubter’s Reward; Before the Altar; The Mask; Pia Veneziani, poi Cristiani; Off Again, On Again; Theology; and Exemplia Gratia.

Henry Louis Mencken was an American journalist, humorist, cultural critic and scholar of American English. Referred to as the “Sage of Baltimore”, he is considered as among the highly distinguished American authors and fictional stylists of the early 20th century. He remarked largely on the social views, literature, music, outstanding politicians and modern movements. His farcical commentary on the Scopes trial, which he tagged the “Monkey Trial”, also earned him interest.

As an academic, Henry is denoted for The American Language, a many volume report of how the English language is enunciated in America. As an aficionado of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he was a critic of religion, populism and representative democracy, which he presumed was a structure in which subservient men ruled their leaders. Henry was a promoter of scientific development, unbelieving of economic systems and analytical of osteopathic and chiropractic medicine.
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