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What is obscenity? Is it more than an empty word? The human race is easily enslaved by, a combination of letters and readily tyrannized by a phrase. Taboos have often been evoked by the creation of labels, and most labels are only confessions of ignorance. Even scientists snatch at a Greek or Latin polysyllable to describe a state of facts which they do not fully understand. One of the prime uses of speech is to overpower the unknown and many words have no real ity behind them. By such tokens people have been brought to believe that there is such a concept as The Obscene.
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