TH E PSUEDO-SCIENTIFIC.
“We have novels and plays that ought to lie dealt with by the dust destructors rather than bv publishers dr theatre managers. Out there i.s a more subtle sort of activity than the artistic—that is the pseudo-scientific puLlicatfou. The printing machines are turning out -more and more of these ‘educative’ things. Semi-apolo-gies are now and again made for them on the ground thaUtheir authors have noble motives. Passages are printed about sexual matters, for instance, that would raise howls if they were uttered in a theatre or included- ill a novel. You can object to this pretentious morbidity without being straightlaced, old-fashioned, and dowdy-mind-ed. No wise father or mother wishes young people to he absolute ignoramuses. There is a limit, though, to what is defensible teaching. The socalled scientific sexual works, with their eatchv titles, exceed that limit. They ought to he in the fire rather than on the bookshelf.”—“Evening News” (London).
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1926, Page 3
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155THE PSUEDO-SCIENTIFIC. Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1926, Page 3
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