24 July, 2010

Two Books in .PDF Format

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“The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity” by John Murray Cuddihy:

[Book].

“The Czech Conspiracy: A Phase in the World-War Plot” by George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers:

[Book].


  • One Response to “Two Books in .PDF Format”

    1. -jc Says:
      24 July, 2010 at 2:06 am

      From the prologue to The Czech Conspiracy

      “… It is in the control of public instruction that the greatest danger to peace and prosperity now lies. It is in the contrast revealed between the true facts and public distortion of them
      that the value of this work may be found. My readers may, in this study, be helped to decide whether it is better that the publication of lies, damaging to the interests of the
      nation, should be punished or, as in England, that the publication of the truth, damaging to individuals and to political interests, should so often be treated as a criminal offence and a source of lucrative profit to affluent and privileged rogues. We may even consider
      whether it is better, as in England, that the Press should control the Government or, as in
      Germany, that the Government should control the Press….

      “… Isaac d’Israeli’s definition of politics: ‘The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.'”