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Our Medieval Hangover
Chase, Stuart | April 24, 1929 issue

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This article focuses on the book "The Outline of Bunk," by E. Haldeman-Julius. The writer of the book is on the whole well satisfied with the modern world. He is sure that you live in the most enlightened age which history has yet to record. But you suffer, he finds, from a medieval hangover. "There is still an extensive prestige of bunk that is grotesquely incompatible with our civilization." Into the margin of incompatibility an author proceeds to wade with seven-league boots upon his feet, a sledge-hammer in one hand, and a fowling-piece in the other.

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OUTLINE of Bunk, The (Book); HALDEMAN-Julius, E.; HISTORY; MODERNISM (Christian theology); CIVILIZATION; CIVILIZATION -- History
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