Samuel L Clemins (1835-1910) was the premier wit of late 19th century
America. His brilliant insight to human nature was superbly manifested
in such excellent works as
- Extracts from Adam's Diary
- A New Crime
- The Great Revolution in Pitcairn
- Tom Sawyer Abroad
- Life on the Mississippi
- Tom Sawyer
- What is Man? And other essays
- A Connecticut Yankee
- Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
- Pudd'n'head Wilson
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
and a very large number of other works. Using his caustic, often
sarcastic wit, Mark Twain attacked the social ills of Apartheid
in South Africa; American militarism; war in general; vivisection;
political oppression; and the hypocrisy of religious morality.
As an adult, Mark Twain rejected contemporary Christianity, and
became a vocal disbeliever who castigated Christian gullibility.
For Rev Austim Miles to claim one of his readers compares Miles
favorably to Mark twain is like comparing Bill Clinton to Ghandi;
like comparing Velikovsky to Einstein; like comparing Mister "T"
to Carl Sagan.
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