The Timely Lesson From Russia

The horror of Russia was as necessary for the world’s education as the horror of Germany.

Mankind learns its lessons expensively, with infinite waste.

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The Tyrannicide

A man forces his way into the stronghold of a tyrant, with the intention of killing him. Not finding the tyrant himself, he kills his son, and leaves the sword sticking in his body. The tyrant, coming, and finding his son dead, slays himself with the same sword.—The assailant now claims that the killing of the son entitles him to the reward of tyrannicide.

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