Damn! A Book of Calumny

DAMN!
A BOOK OF CALUMNY
By H·L·MENCKEN

DAMN! A BOOK OF CALUMNY

DAMN!
A BOOK OF CALUMNY
BY H. L. MENCKEN

Second Printing

PHILIP GOODMAN COMPANY
NEW YORK NINETEEN EIGHTEEN

COPYRIGHT 1918 BY
PHILIP GOODMAN COMPANY

CONTENTS

I	Pater Patriæ	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	36
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
XXII	Clubs	49
XXIII	Fidelis ad Urnum	50
XXIV	A Theological Mystery	52
XXV	The Test of Truth	53
XXVI	Literary Indecencies	54
XXVII	Virtuous Vandalism	55
XXVIII	A Footnote on the Duel of Sex	60
XXIX	Alcohol	64
XXX	Thoughts on the Voluptuous	67
XXXI	The Holy Estate	69
XXXII	Dichtung und Wahrheit	70
XXXIII	Wild Shots	71
XXXIV	Beethoven	73
XXXV	The Tone Art	75
XXXVI	Zoos	80
XXXVII	On Hearing Mozart	86
XXXVIII	The Road to Doubt	87
XXXIX	A New Use for Churches	88
XL	The Root of Religion	90
XLI	Free Will	91
XLII	Quid est Veritas?	95)
XLIII	The Doubter's Reward	96
XLIV	Before the Altar	97
XLV	The Mask	98
XLVI	Pia Veneziani, poi Cristiani	99
XLVII	Off Again, On Again	101
XLVIII	Theology	102
XLIX	Exemplia Gratia	103

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