| | 1 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Add | | | Title: | The Morals Lecture  | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WAS SOLICITED to go round the world on a lecture tour by a man in Australia. I asked him
what they wanted to be lectured on. He wrote back that those people were very coarse and
serious and that they would like something solid, something in the way of education, something
gigantic, and he proposed that I prepare about three or four lectures at any rate on just morals,
any kind of morals, but just morals, and I like that idea. I liked it very much and was perfectly
willing to engage in that kind of work, and I should like to teach morals. I have a great enthusiasm
in doing that and I shall like to teach morals to those people. I do not like to have them taught to
me and I do not know any duller entertainment than that, but I know I can produce a quality of
goods that will satisfy those people. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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