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218 THIS DIFFICULT INDIVIDUAL
It is a failure, and the idea of breed was not always un-English.
The mongrel may be clever. Varietism may be amusing and it
undoubtedly claimed other empires which have decayed, why
shouldn't we? But it says nothing to the morrow, absolutely it
says nothing to the morrow. The brain monopoly will have to
swear up to the race problem or perish.
"To hear 'em you would think the braintrust is interested in
producing another sort of carcass that can support the greatest
number of lice, namely, parasites, subhuman or other. The braintrust
will have to face the problem of race, and you will have to
face the problem of race, and you apparently dare not face it.
Who are the Shoguns [Shotguns, according to the transcriber],
I ask you?"
June 4, 1942. As to Pathology and Psychosis:
"As to pathology and psychosis. Europe calling. Ezra Pound
calling. Nebulous notions, fragments of messy-eyed girls, floating
above a pea-soup of ignorance, dense impenetrable ignorance,
ignorance of Axis, ignorance of the capacities of the American
Navy, ignorance of the lower deck morale, and what causes that?
Have you no pathologists in the country?"
June 8, 1942. The Keys of Humor:
"Hired labor is cheaper than slave labor. And you don't really
have to feed your employees, whereas if your stock is in slaves,
you damn well have got to feed them.
". . . My heart doesn't bleed for my country. I would rather
have my head work for my country. If you can't or won't think
of the causes of your slavery; if this conducement of slavery of
your children for ten generations—if you won't think of it—God
help you. You are in for billions of debts and you have not
got your own people's money to pay for it. And most of you have
not got the groggiest idea of Lincoln—you don't know what he
meant by it. Here are ignorance of coin, credit and circulation,
said John Adams 80 years before Lincoln. Ignorance and of course
greed—greed is your ruin, the lust of evil men to get labor for
next to nothing, lust of a planter to get African labor. But then
finds that they are not paying enough, the lust of the immigrant