#Thou shalt not kill yet trial

It is stupefying men in order to make them fit instruments for murder. Yet the meaning of this drilling is very clear and simple: it is nothing but a preparation for killing. They see what constant care Kings, Emperors, and Presidents devote to their disciplined armies they see the reviews, parades, and maneuvers the rulers hold, about which they boast to one another and the people crowd to see their own brothers, brightly dressed up in fools' clothes, turned into machines to the sound of drum and trumpet, all, at the shout of one man, making one and the same movement at one and the same moment-but they do not understand what it all means. The crowd are so hypnotized that they see what is going on before their eyes, but do not understand its meaning. and Humbert, but they should be surprised that such murders are so rare, considering the continual and universal example of murder that they give to mankind.

Kings and Emperors not only should not be indignant at such murders as those of Alexander 11. The teaching of Christ repeals the law, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth' but those who have always clung to that law, and still cling to it, and who apply it to a terrible degree-not only claiming an eye for an eye,' but without provocation decreeing the slaughter of thousands, as they do when they declare war- have no right to be indignant at the application of that same law to themselves in so small and insignificant a degree that hardly one King or Emperor is killed for each hundred thousand, or perhaps even for each million, who are killed by the order and with the consent of Kings and Emperors. or Humbert, for instance), not to speak of executions in their own countries, were instigators of, and accomplices and partakers in, the murder of tens of thousands of men who perished on the field of battle while more cruel Kings and Emperors have been guilty of hundreds of thousands, and even millions, of murders. But, in fact, the mildest of the murdered Kings (Alexander 11. of France, Alexander ll., the Empress of Austria, the late Shah of Persia, and, recently, Humbert- such murders excite the greatest surprise and indignation among Kings and Emperors and their adherents, just as if they themselves never took part in murders, nor profited by them, nor instigated them.

#Thou shalt not kill yet trial

Peter Ill., Paul, and various Sultans, Shahs, and Khans-little is said about it but when they are killed without a trial and without a Court conspiracy- as in the case of Henry IV. When Kings are executed after trial, as in the case of Charles L, Louis XVI., and Maximilian of Mexico or when they are killed in Court conspiracies, like. 'Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.' - MATT. 'For all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.' -MATT xxvi. 'The disciple is not above his master: but every one when he is perfected shall be as his master.' -LUKE vi.