The New York Hooroarer

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Excerpt from The New York Hooroarer: A Story of Newspaper Enterprise, Containing a Visit to the Infernal Regions and Return The heathen worship gods of wood and lead. And Christians worship god with wooden head. It has been said that I have treated in a light and frivolous manner that which should have elicited seriousness. I reply - not forgetting the inalienable rights of others as well as my own - that if I believe that there is not in existence a place answering to a literal, material carbon-consuming hell, should not that lingering remnant of Paganism, or rather its belief, be treated with frivolity and laughed out of existence? As one paper pointed out, in a leading article, that Dante treated the subject seriously - Mr. Edwards has made a joke of it. Certainly, Dante's conceptions were in accord with the spirit of the age in which he lived, but in this age of progress, thinkers of all classes recognize the doctrine as moribund, and will welcome the laugh that accompanies its kick out of existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.