III The Expurgation of the Intellect Consider the reaction of an experienced statesman who leaves the service of a king to enter the service of truth.
But that is not all; there is much more in the way of preliminaries: there must be a general "expurgation of the intellect.
The process of expurgation was the application with a brush of a coat of printing ink to the peccant word or passage, so as to render it perfectly illegible.
Something may be due to cautious expurgation of passages which tell against the writer, or might offend modern taste; yet in other respects contemporary editors have been sufficiently indiscreet.
If, on the other hand, expurgation is freely employed, the result is a kind of emasculation.
In their work no later expurgation could cleanse away that which their work could not contain.
How the text has been so well guarded I cannot explain; Mr. Murray's theory of expurgation of certain beliefs, ways and manners, is examined in Appendix B.
The spirit that hated cruelty" has left the facts where it found them; there is no expurgation of them.
We cannot find expurgationin failure to accomplish a purpose.
Much of this theory of expurgation of the Iliad and Odyssey seems to me to rest on the assumption of [Greek: euphemia].
How these recitations and hypothetical earlier Ionian recitations contributed to the expurgation of the Iliad and Odyssey, must be stated in Mr. Murray's own words.
To do that would require a complete expurgation of the journal.
In the very act of expurgation it lives; for what is taken from one page is placed on another.
I do not assume to say that the question of this expurgation was a leading, or a controlling point in the issue of this election.
His Fleurs du Mal, therefore, as his chief work is entitled, had to undergo expurgation before it was allowed to be published, and has never been popular with the general public.
There has been a good deal of expurgation in the Homeric Zeus,[50:1] as Mr. Cook clearly shows.
The moral expurgation failed owing to the mere force of inertia possessed by old religious traditions and local cults.
Of course, criticism and expurgation of the legends is too common to need illustration.
Thus a failure in the moral expurgation was deepened by a failure in the attempt to bring intellectual order into the welter of primitive gods.
We may analyse the movement into three main elements: a moralexpurgation of the old rites, an attempt to bring order into the old chaos, and lastly an adaptation to new social needs.
I do not touch here on the subject of the gradual expurgation of the Poems to suit the feelings of a more civilized audience; see Rise of the Greek Epic,{3} pp.
One step to this end is taken in the expurgation of genius, which is His second manifestation, as Nature is His first!
And not for her, nor by her, nor by man, do I assent to the expurgation of the great books.
The expurgation by which it was proposed to rid the Statute-book of this lumber was originated some 250 years ago, by Bacon, as stated in pp.
