Talk:Mark Twain

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Does anyone know what the homeopathy quote is from?--KreJ (talk) 11:40, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

It's from "A Majestic Literary Fossil", in Harpers Monthly. pdf here, end of second to last page. --MarkGall (talk) 03:10, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Agnostic?[edit]

Does sufficient evidence exist for calling Twain an agnostic; or would he need to use the exact word in referring to himself? Amateur Encyclopedist (talk) 18:40, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

if you give reasons for why you would lable him X or Y, I think it's something that can be discussed. "was Lincoln gay". People do not always self identify as a term, and the term may or may not have been in general use. That said, you need more than heresay about a book that may have addressed it, to make the argument. What did he say about his view of god? Argue from there.One tin soldier (talk) 18:46, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Section about Racism[edit]

Shouldn't there be a section on whether Twain was racist or not? I mean this is a big issue when people try to ban Huck Finn from being read in schools. S.H. DeLong (talk) 03:00, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

Given what he thought about Native Americans, I'd say he was.--Кřěĵ (ṫåɬк) 05:09, 23 April 2019 (UTC)