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ADDITIONS IN 2021 \/ L’AN II<\/h2>\n

Jan<\/a> Feb<\/a> – Mar<\/a> – Apr<\/a> – May<\/a> – Jun<\/a> – Jul<\/a> – Aug<\/a> – Sept<\/a> – Oct<\/a> – Nov<\/a> – Dec<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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December 2021<\/h3>\n \n \n \n
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Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)<\/p>\n \"\"\/\n

Goya, "The Sleep of Reason produces Monsters"<\/p><\/td>\n

After two years of posting new material to the website I am currently reorganising the front page and the index pages. Bear with me while I complete this electronic housekeeping.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, sit back, read some H.L. Mencken, and enjoy the circus which continues to unfold in front of our very eyes, such as this passage from chap. 13. "Women and the Emotions", In Defense of Women<\/em> (1918): <\/p>\n

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Your true savage, reserved, dignified, and courteous, knows how to mask his feelings, even in the face of the most desperate assault upon them; your civilized man is forever yielding to them. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary<\/strong>. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. They are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury. Here the effect of civilization has been to reduce the noblest of the arts, once the repository of an exalted etiquette and the chosen avocation of the very best men of the race, to the level of a riot of peasants.<\/p>\n <\/blockquote>\n

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  1. \u201cSome Thoughts on Liberal History<\/a>\u201d (29 December, 2021)<\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

    Additions to the Library:<\/strong><\/p>\n