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Comic Bible Sketches Reprinted from "The Freethinker" - G. W. (George William) Foote
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Title: Comic Bible Sketches
Reprinted from The Freethinker
Author: George W. Foote
Release Date: October 6, 2009 [EBook #30210]
Last Updated: November 17, 2012
Language: English
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COMIC BIBLE SKETCHES
Reprinted From The Freethinker
By G. W. Foote
Part I.
London:
Progressive Publishing Company
28 Stonecutter Street, E.C.
1885.
INTRODUCTION.
English literature has its Comic Histories, its Comic Grammars, its Comic Geographies, and its Comic Law-Books, and Carlyle once prophesied that it would some day boast its Comic Bible. Tough as the fine old Sage of Chelsea was, he predicted this monstrosity with something of the horror a barbarian might feel at the thought of some irreverent fellow deliberately laughing at the tribal fetish. But what shocked our latter-day prophet so greatly in mere anticipation has partially come to pass. La Bible Amusante
has had an extensive sale in France, and the infectious irreverence has extended itself to England. Notwithstanding that Mr. G. R. Sims, when he saw the first numbers of that abominable publication, piously turned up the whites of his eyes, and declared his opinion that no English Freethinker, however extreme, would think of reproducing or