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Pound wrote (as quoted by Wei earlier in the context of "outmoded ritual"):
As to sacrifices, I think the body of notes on the
subject, everything that has come to my attention,
is just plain stupid to the point of imbecility.
'Pleasing to heaven,' etc. Various ideas of pleasing
the spirits are all very well, but there could still be
a lesson in animal sacrifice for any group that had
evolved beyond primitive stages. Animals are killed
now in abattoirs; the sight of a
killing can remind us in the midst of our normal
semi-conscious-ness of all that goes on in our vile
and degraded mercantilist ambience, THAT LIFE
EXISTS BY THE DESTRUCTION OF OTHER LIFE.
The sight of one day's hecatomb might even cause thought in
the midst of our democracy and usuriocracy
(S.P., 68).
[ my emphasis ]
Any Darwinian influence on Pound's ideas about race and eugenics? Social
order and class? Fascism?
Tim Romano
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