A pamphlet (French pamphlet) was a short tract that focused on a social, particularly political or religious issue and argued a position pro or contra, or that pursued a demagogic purpose in a polemical way. In some European languages, notably German (Pamphlet), the word developed a pejorative connotation, arising from the “contempt or at least indifference” of such works to the persons named in them, and such a connotation was alrea…