Dr. Stiggins: His Views and Principles

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Dr. Stiggins: His Views and Principles (1925)
by Arthur Machen

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Second, expanded edition; book originally published in 1906

3837921Dr. Stiggins: His Views and Principles1925Arthur Machen

Dr. Stiggins

BOOKS BY ARTHUR MACHEN

The House of Souls
The Secret Glory
The Hill of Dreams
Far Off Things
Things Near and Far
Hieroglyphics
The Three Impostors
Dog and Duck
Ornaments in Jade
The London Adventure
Dr. Stiggins
The Shining Pyramid

In preparation
The Anatomy of Tobacco

New York, Alfred A. Knopf

Dr. Stiggins:

His Views and Principles

A series of interviews by
Arthur Machen

New York
Alfred · A · Knopf
1925

Copyright, 1924, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Published April, 1925

Manufactured in the United States of America

Deus venerunt Gentes in hæreditatem tuam, polluerunt templum sanctum tuum, posuerunt Jerusalem in pomorum custodiam.—Psalmus lxxviii.

Vineam de Ægypto transtulisti, ejecisti Gentes, et plantasti eam. . . . Exterminavit eam aper de silva, et singularis ferus depastus est eam.—Psalmus lxxix.

The beastly Covenanters . . . hardly had any claim to be called men, unless what was founded on their walking upon their hind feet. You can hardly conceive the perfidy, cruelty, and stupidity of these people, according to the accounts they have themselves preserved.—Sir Walter Scott.

*Contents*
(not listed in original) Introduction 9
I: Protestantism and Preserved Meat—Moral and Political Dignity of the United States of America	15
II: History Must Go—A Little Christian's Thoughts of Heaven	42
III: A Popish Poet—Democracy the Touchstone of Our Faith—Free Churches in Heaven	63
IV: What is True Patriotism?—Our Corrupt Stage—Superstition in the Newspaper	99
V: Immoral Sculptures—The Domesticated Critic—The Right Place for Shakespeare	132
VI: The Free Churches the Heirs of Evolution, and the Only Catholic Church of To-day	171
(not listed in original) Advertisements 203

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

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