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Introduction

-pp. XXI

"...the best men never are and never have been diverted from their highest pursuits by any woman, however attractive."

"...The best men are the long-headed men, resembling the Cro-Magnons, and these, as I have already pointed out, are Dionysians. They master women; women do not master or even influence them."
-pp. 214

Hehe Ludovici refers to tea as "drug".

hm the poor spent 1 /8th of their earnings to buy tea, this is what he refered to.
Tea contains after all "tannin and caffein".
-pp. 159

"It has been argued again and again by authorities whose degrees and honors literally fill their title-pages, that alcohol is not good for the human body. I do not accept this view.

There may be truth in the view that large amounts of alcohol are bad; but that alcohol taken moderately is bad, I do not Believe.

I would refer the reader to the Lancet of March 30th, 1907"
-pp. 150"

Eat 4 oranges a say, to keep scurvy away.
The section that I read is about food consultation and nutrients in foodstuffs, uncooked or otherwise.

"Technology - that child of modern sience, which in turn is a child of modern metaphysics - is out of humanity's control, has ceased to serve us, has enslaved us and compelled us to participate in the preparation of our own destruction"
-pp. 133

""By speaking the truth. Š had stepped out of line, broken the rules, cast himself out, and he ended up as a sub-citizen, stigmatized as en enemy.
He could now say anything he wanted, but he could never, as a matter of principle, expect to be heard. He had become the 'dissident' of Eastern Bohemian Brewery."
-pp. 82-83"

"a 'dissiden' is simply a physicist, a sociologist, a worker, a poet, individuals who are merely doing what they feel they must and, consequently, who find themselves in open conflict with the regime"
-pp. 74