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An edition of Prejudices (1919)

Prejudices

third series

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Mencken, with his acerbic wit and tongue planted permanently near if not in cheek, laments a world where some feel that all original criticism has been done. New ideas are old ideas with new vocabularies. The things we choose to let offend us today are really the same as those in the past wearing shoes with platform souls just to seem a bit more ominous.
With this hopeless situation, it becomes the job of pseudo-scholar to abandon criticism or carnal evils and move on to criticizing the criticism itself. Surely we, being more enlightened, more intelligent and more alive (always a key to proving your superiority to those before your time) can provide a better analysis of what is wrong with everything and right with nothing.
I just dashed this off quickly one evening in an effort to snag others to read and evaluate. Feel free to liberally edit or delete my description.

Since we have been born of immaculate perception, free from the sin of bias, it is our duty to point out for our contemporaries and our posterity what is truly "right" and what is--well, maybe "less right", for in our relativistic culture there is not wrong; 2 + 2 may equal 5 or even 3 from a point of view superior to our own.
Find yourself in these pages. Live life in the third person and begin to recognize how each of us is slave to the history we've studied and lived, servant to our education and personal experience.

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Publisher
A. Knopf
Language
English
Pages
328

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Prejudices: A Selection (Buncombe Collection)
August 28, 2006, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
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Prejudices
June 2003, Ross & Perry,
Hardcover in English
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Prejudices: a selection
1996, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Prejudices: fifth series
1977, Octagon Books
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Prejudices
1958, Vintage Books
in English
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Prejudices: third series
1922, A. Knopf
in English
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Prejudices: first series.
1921, J. Cape
in English
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Prejudices: second series
1921, J. Cape
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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3525.E43 P83 1922, PS3525.E43 P83 1924

The Physical Object

Pagination
328 p. ;
Number of pages
328

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL6647862M
Internet Archive
cu31924021783372
LCCN
22019628
OCLC/WorldCat
27854972, 1124154, 6772059

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2629639W

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