Essay · 1918
Exempli Gratia
by H. L. Mencken · from Damn! A Book of Calumny (1918)
Read Exempli Gratia in full, as it appeared in Damn! A Book of Calumny (1918). H. L. Mencken’s recurring targets included organized religion, fundamentalism, American democracy.
Do I let the poor suffer, and consign them, as old Friedrich used to say, to statistics and the devil? Well, so does God.
From Damn! A Book of Calumny (1918). Public-domain text, sourced from Project Gutenberg.