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Damn! A Book of Calumny

by H. L. Mencken

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IX The Comstockian Premiss

It is argued against certain books, by virtuosi of moral alarm, that they depict vice as attractive. This recalls the king who hanged a judge for deciding that an archbishop was a mammal.

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