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With our hearts full of gratitude for this modern civilization of ours, we sometimes look back and shudder at the cruelty of ancient and medieval times. We wonder how human beings possessing the average allotment of sanity could ever have taken such fiendish delight in the torture of prisoners or the persecution of martyrs. But what assurance have we that the joy of witnessing pain is a trait of the past? A certain recent event, among other things, makes some of us wonder...
...This decision caused me much heart searching. The prospect of inviting a man to my house with the intention of killing him horrified me. Whoever the man might be-even Rasputin, the incarnation of crime and vice-I could not contemplate without a shudder the part which I would be called upon to play-that of a host encompassing the death of his guest...
...their shoulder to the wheel of the wain of progress only to have the wain turn juggernaut. But in the Ghetto read the name as "Little Augie," a pioneer in a now overcrowded profession, who added finesse to the art of unmodified murder. He was the first to shudder at the crudeness of a Jimmie Valentine's jimmy and to shrug fastidious shoulders at the alien importations of Dr. Fu Manchu. One of the most minor instances of his genius was the introduction of the shoulder-sling to the East Side, supplanting the unlovely bulge to the back trousers pocket...
...could overlook the King Albert memorial on a distinct promise that it would never occur again, but deliberately to repeat the crime in the Queen Victoria work and Nurse Edith Cavell monument makes one shudder...
Scientifically Audubon is out of date now. As an observer of contemporary customs nd scenery he is ageless. No Californian will read his description of an earthquake on the Kentucky barrens without a shudder of recognition. No rifleman but will be excited by his careful account of how Kentuckians, for practice, drove nails and snuffed candles with their bullets; how Daniel Boone "barked" squirrels, hitting the limb under their chins to stun, not mash them. Florida land-boomers may read how Mr. Audubon struggled through primeval subdivisions in a hurricane. The odd naturalist, "Monsieur de T.," slaying bats...