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The Bible, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Plato, Horace, Catullus, to take names at random, would all come under the ban.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “The Bible, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Plato, Horace, Catullus, to take names at random, would all come under the ban.”
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Laski lists classic literary works that would be deemed obscene under strict legal tests, illustrating the absurdity of such censorship.
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