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Prejudices first series H L Mencken Books
Publication date: 1919It is so nice to have this book well-formatted for Kindle. Mencken is one of those authors (Aldous Huxley is another) who were only coming into their prime in 1924, when a major revision to copyright law was passed. Only Mencken's early work has been available from Gutenberg. And of PREJUDICES, the six volumes of collected essays, scans of the first three are at the Open Library, varying in quality from 'unreadable muck' to 'passable.'
And Mencken is a joy to read, even today:
"There is, in America, no orderly and thorough working out of the fundamental problems of our society; there is only, as one Englishman has said, an eternal combat of crazes. The things of capital importance are habitually discussed, not by men soberly trying to get at the truth about them, but by brummagem Great Thinkers trying only to get kudos of them. We are beset endlessly by quacks-and they are not the less quacks when they happen to be quite honest. In all fields, from politics to pedagogics and from theology to public hygiene, there is a constant emotional obscuration of the true issues, a violent combat of credulities, an inane debasement of scientific curiosity to the level of mob gaping."
His gusto is contagious. Few writers have ever had this mix of good humor and seriousness. His essay on Veblen is a tour de force, but so is his celebration of his friend George Jean Nathan. I quote from it because it also seems to describe Mencken himself:
"Without abandoning anything essential, without making the slightest concession to the orthodox opinion that he so magnificently disdains, he yet begins to yield to the middle years. The mere shocking of the stupid is no longer as charming as it used to be. What he now offers is rather more gemütlich ; sometimes it even verges upon the instructive.... But I doubt that Nathan will ever become a professor, even if he enjoys the hideously prolonged senility of a William Winter [?? well, he's not around to feel insulted- cd]. He will be full of surprises to the end. With his last gasp he will make a phrase to flabbergast a dolt."
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Prejudices first series H L Mencken Books Reviews
Publication date 1919
It is so nice to have this book well-formatted for . Mencken is one of those authors (Aldous Huxley is another) who were only coming into their prime in 1924, when a major revision to copyright law was passed. Only Mencken's early work has been available from Gutenberg. And of PREJUDICES, the six volumes of collected essays, scans of the first three are at the Open Library, varying in quality from 'unreadable muck' to 'passable.'
And Mencken is a joy to read, even today
"There is, in America, no orderly and thorough working out of the fundamental problems of our society; there is only, as one Englishman has said, an eternal combat of crazes. The things of capital importance are habitually discussed, not by men soberly trying to get at the truth about them, but by brummagem Great Thinkers trying only to get kudos of them. We are beset endlessly by quacks-and they are not the less quacks when they happen to be quite honest. In all fields, from politics to pedagogics and from theology to public hygiene, there is a constant emotional obscuration of the true issues, a violent combat of credulities, an inane debasement of scientific curiosity to the level of mob gaping."
His gusto is contagious. Few writers have ever had this mix of good humor and seriousness. His essay on Veblen is a tour de force, but so is his celebration of his friend George Jean Nathan. I quote from it because it also seems to describe Mencken himself
"Without abandoning anything essential, without making the slightest concession to the orthodox opinion that he so magnificently disdains, he yet begins to yield to the middle years. The mere shocking of the stupid is no longer as charming as it used to be. What he now offers is rather more gemütlich ; sometimes it even verges upon the instructive.... But I doubt that Nathan will ever become a professor, even if he enjoys the hideously prolonged senility of a William Winter [?? well, he's not around to feel insulted- cd]. He will be full of surprises to the end. With his last gasp he will make a phrase to flabbergast a dolt."
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