
Englisch: "Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong" - "The Divine Afflatus" in: New York Evening Mail (16. November 1917); später veröffentlicht in Prejudices: Second Series (1921) p. 158 https://archive.org/stream/prejudices030184mbp#page/n163/mode/1up und, geringfügig verändert, in A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), p. 443 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=2Q19hMwsNgYC&pg=PA443&dq=neat