Damn! A Book of Calumny

by H. L. Mencken

DAMN!

A BOOK OF CALUMNY

BY H. L. MENCKEN

Third Printing

PHILIP GOODMAN COMPANY
NEW YORK NINETEEN EIGHTEEN

COPYRIGHT 1918 BY
PHILIP GOODMAN COMPANY

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CONTENTS

I	Pater Patriæ	[7]
II	The Reward of the Artist	[9]
III	The Heroic Considered	[10]
IV	The Burden of Humor	[11]
V	The Saving Grace	[13]
VI	Moral Indignation	[14]
VII	Stable-Names	[17]
VIII	The Jews	[19]
IX	The Comstockian Premiss	[22]
X	The Labial Infamy	[23]
XI	A True Ascetic	[28]
XII	On Lying	[30]
XIII	History	[32]
XIV	The Curse of Civilization	[34]
XV	Eugenics	[35]
XVI	The Jocose Gods	[37]
XVII	War	[38]
XVIII	Moralist and Artist	[39]
XIX	Actors	[40]
XX	The Crowd	[45]
XXI	An American Philosopher	[48]
XXII	Clubs	[49]
XXIII	Fidelis ad Urnum	[50]
XXIV	A Theological Mystery	[52]
XXV	The Test of Truth	[53]
XXVI	Literary Indecencies	[54]
XXVII	Virtuous Vandalism	[55]
XXVIII	A Footnote on the Duel of Sex	[60]
XXIX	Alcohol	[64]
XXX	Thoughts on the Voluptuous	[67]
XXXI	The Holy Estate	[69]
XXXII	Dichtung und Wahrheit	[70]
XXXIII	Wild Shots	[71]
XXXIV	Beethoven	[73]
XXXV	The Tone Art	[75]
XXXVI	Zoos	[80]
XXXVII	On Hearing Mozart	[86]
XXXVIII	The Road to Doubt	[87]
XXXIX	A New Use for Churches	[88]
XL	The Root of Religion	[90]
XLI	Free Will	[91]
XLII	Quid est Veritas?	[95]
XLIII	The Doubter's Reward	[96]
XLIV	Before the Altar	[97]
XLV	The Mask	[98]
XLVI	Pia Veneziani, poi Cristiani	[99]
XLVII	Off Again, On Again	[101]
XLVIII	Theology	[102]
XLIX	Exemplia Gratia	[103]