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The Gods Damned
Hazlitt, Henry | March 19, 1930 issue

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The article presents an overview of the book "Treatise on the Gods," by H. L. Mencken. The volume is divided into five chapters or sections. The first discusses the nature and origin of religion. Section II discusses the growth of the priests as a class, and their constant reaching out for power, secular as well as spiritual, so that "the history of civilization is largely a history of the long effort to shake them off. Section III is a highly fascinating discussion of the varieties of religion. As the reader may have guessed, there are no subtitles in the book, and few ideas that are brilliantly new; but it is full of a wide and curious learning, it is admirably put together, and its eloquence and pungency never flag.

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ART & mythology; PRIESTS; CIVILIZATION; BOOKS & reading; TREATISE on the Gods (Book); MENCKEN, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
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