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We do not know how these words will strike Pacificist

readers. On us they produce a sense of physical nausea. Tamerlane with words of frightfulness on his lips to match his deeds is a tiger, but in a sense a respectable animal. What shall be said of men who, with their hands dripping with innocent blood, usurp the forms and phrases of religion without their substance and indulge the licence without the temper of true humanity ?