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An edition of Prejudices (1919)

Prejudices

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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
Octagon Books
Language
English
Pages
307

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Cover of: Prejudices
Prejudices: A Selection (Buncombe Collection)
August 28, 2006, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: Prejudices
Prejudices
June 2003, Ross & Perry,
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Prejudices
Prejudices: a selection
1996, The Johns Hopkins University Press
in English - Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
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Prejudices: fifth series
1977, Octagon Books
in English
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Prejudices
1958, Vintage Books
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New York

Edition Notes

Reprint of the ed. published by Knopf, New York.
Includes index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.5/209
Library of Congress
PS3525.E43 P85 1977

The Physical Object

Pagination
307 p. ;
Number of pages
307

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4896309M
Internet Archive
prejudicesfifths0000menc
ISBN 10
0374955786
LCCN
76030379
OCLC/WorldCat
2985893
Library Thing
9346396
Goodreads
1005352

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