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    Is the Bible Indictable? Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature
    Is the Bible Indictable? Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature
    Is the Bible Indictable? Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature
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    Is the Bible Indictable? Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature

    By Annie Besant

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    Release dateSep 1, 2010
    Is the Bible Indictable? Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature
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    Annie Besant

    Beebop is a series of graded readers for three levels which increase in complexity to allow for improvement in ability and interest. The ratings take into consideration the following components: difficulty of vocabulary, sentence length, comprehension abilities and subject matter. Each level consists of four story books and four accompanying activity books.

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      Is the Bible Indictable? Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature - Annie Besant

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      Title: Is the Bible Indictable?

      Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling

      of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature

      Author: Annie Besant

      Release Date: December 11, 2011 [EBook #38273]

      Language: English

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      IS THE BIBLE INDICTABLE?

      BY

      ANNIE BESANT.

      BEING AN ENQUIRY WHETHER THE BIBLE COMES WITHIN THE RULING OF THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE AS TO OBSCENE LITERATURE.

      LONDON:

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      IS THE BIBLE INDICTABLE?

      AN ENQUIRY WHETHER THE BIBLE COMES WITHIN THE RULING OF THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE AS TO OBSCENE LITERATURE.

      The ruling of Sir Alexander Cockburn in the late trial, the Queen against Bradlaugh and Besant, seems to involve wider issues than the Lord Chief Justice intended, or than the legal ally of Nature and Providence can desire. The question of motive is entirely set on one side; the purest motives are valueless if the information conveyed is such as is capable of being turned to bad purposes by the evil-minded and the corrupt. This view of the law would not be enforced against expensive medical works; provided that the price set on a book be such as shall keep it out of reach of the common people, its teaching may be thoroughly immoral but it is not obscene. Dr. Fleetwood Churchill, for instance, is not committing an indictable offence by giving directions as to the simplest and easiest way of procuring abortion; he is not committing a misdemeanour, although he points

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