1 L Sprague de Camp by The Blade of Conan (Ace 1979)

Author:The Blade of Conan (Ace 1979)
Format: epub

CONTROLLED ANACHRONISM 155 ten thousand miles of wire could teach gentleness, patience, modesty, manners to the highest duchess in Arthur’s land.” But the worst thing was the ignorance. Even the best people of Arthur’s time were no more than kindly muttonheads—except for the children— you could always teach children. Behind all this stupidity and immorality, and ultimate author of most of it, was the Roman Catholic and later the Anglican Churches. ‘‘Any Established Church is an established crime, an established slave-pen.” A Connecticut Yankee has been called “‘a noble and passionate expression of an ideal of freedom”’ by the Canadian humorist and economist Stephen Leacock. True enough, Twain hammers home the poverty, misery, and horror of the life of an English serf quite as detailedly as Victor Hugo does in The Man Who Laughs, while his remarks about the French Revolution are enough to make a Republican Rightist’s teeth curl and even an American of the moderate left blanch to his eyeballs (and serve ’em right!): All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in the world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed must begin in blood, whatever may answer afterward. If history teaches anything, it teaches that... the ever memorable and blessed French Revolution, which swept a thousand years of villainy away in one swift tidal wave of blood—one: a settlement of that hoary debt in the proportion of half a drop of blood for each hogshead of it that had been pressed by slow tortures out of the people in the

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