that any man who has a private grudge against another man kills him. Suppose that all restraint were removed from the city of Paris while I am speaking. Before to-morrow’s sun sets her streets would run red with blood, and be piled high with corpses. And what is true of Paris is true of every city and town and village. Men hate each other enough now to kill each other, but for various reasons they do not think it expedient. What follows the war is famine; following that, pestilence; then anarchy.