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Re: Anti-Semitism: getting started understanding it
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Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
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Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 19 Oct 1999 08:56:06 -0400
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I would add this succinct statement by Pound as another explanation of his
great antipathy for the monotheistic religions:
 
"... The principle of evil consists in messing into other peoples' affairs.
Against the principle of evil no adequate precaution is taken by
Christianity, Moslemism, Judaism, nor, so far as I know, by <i>any</i>
monotheistic religion. ... " (1927)
 
His definition of the good state was similar:
 
"A good state is one which impinges least upon the peripheries of its
citizens." (1925).
 
Tim Romano
 
P.S. These are reprinted in _Ezra Pound: Selected Prose 1909-1965_  ed. Wm.
Cookson, Faber and Faber.

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