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| Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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| Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
| Date | 1899 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
| Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
| Title | Page 160 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_167.jpg |
| Transcript | The Story of Nurem we visit the .stupendous <>n of torture-instru ments, those melancholy nonunienti of human For torture as a system of trial, as tin- ^reat alternative to the ordeal, has received the sanction of the throughout far th- portion of the world's history. It is, indeed, only qui* that we have in practice acknowledged Ouintilian's objection to torture—that under it < }% con stancy makes falsehood easy to him whilst another's weakness makes falsehood necessary. History, too, has shown us the evil effects of this system upon the judge, who became inevitably eager to convince himself of the guilt of the poor wretch whom he had already caused to suffer. How completely the prisoner thus became a quarry to be hunted to the death is shown by the jocular remark of Farinacci, a celebrated authority in criminal law, that the torture of slci ness invented by Marsigli was most excellent, for out of a hundred martyrs exposed to it not two could endure it without becoming confessors as well. This form of torture was pmoti ngland even without the continental limit of time. But on the whole, torture in England fell short of the best continental standard. Still, it remains true to say that human ingenuitv could not invent suffering more terrible than was constantly and legally employed in every civilised community. Satan himself, one writer exclaims, would be unable to increase its refinements. A rieit fee the Tower of London will prove that Nuremberg was not a solitary and disgraceful exception to the manners ot he The robber-barons, who flourished under King Si in England used the same methods as th< I I brethren to extract ransoms from the rich merchants they captured, using knotted ropes twisted round the head, crucct-houses, or chests filled with sharp stones in which the victim was crushed, sachentages, or 160 |