Length6h 15m
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Excerpt: "Mumbo-Jumbo is that department in the ruling of men which is made of dead, false, apparatus; unreasonable; contemptible to the free; unworthy of authority—and Mumbo-Jumbo is the most necessary ingredient in all government. All government is by persuasion. Odd it is that so many do not yet see this! Perhaps not so odd after all; for words trick the mind, and the words of government are not the words of persuasion. But think of the matter for a moment, and you will see that government is of necessity by persuasion. Here I catch the voices of two men, an ass and his uterine brother—that sort of braying centaur, half a rational being and half an ass. The ass tells me that government is merely the use of force; the centaur, half man half donkey, tells me that it lives by the threat of force."
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GenreLiterary Classics, Humor
Length6 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 3, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ON ACHMET BOULEE BEY
16ON TECHNICAL WORDS
2ON AN EDUCATIONAL REFORM
17ON THE ACCURSED CLIMATE
3ON KIND HEARTS BEING MORE THAN CORONETS
18ON ACCENT
4ON MUMBO-JUMBO
19ON TRUTH AND THE ADMIRALTY
5ON FOOTNOTES
20A SHORT ADVENTURE
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6A FEW KIND WORDS TO MAMMON
21ON SAILING THE SEAS
7ON TREVES
22OFF EXMOUTH
8ON THE CATHEDRAL OF SEVILLE AND "THE MISANTHROPE"
23ON A PIECE OF ROPE
9ON THE "BUCOLICS" OF VIRGIL, A CAFÉ IN PARIS, THE LENGTH OF ESSAYS, PHŒBUS, BACCHUS, A WANTON MAID, AND OTHER MATTERS
24"ULTIMA RATIO"
10ON TITLES
25ON A TAG PROVIDER
11ON BAD VERSE
26ON "AND"
12THE UNITED POETS
27THE CAD'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA
13ON CONVINCING PEOPLE
28ON THE MELTING OF THE ICE
14ON CONTROVERSY
29ON THE HATRED OF NUMBERS
15ON INACCURACY
30ON THE LAST INFIRMITY
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