Jules Verne. Upside down (№ 146927)

General anxiety increased, and with it grew and irritation; finally some practical people, remember that there could be useful to medieval torture, for example, "Spanish boots" the executioner, tongs and molten lead, which was unleashed language most stubborn silent, and boiling oil, test water, rack, etc.
Why not use these tools? Indeed, in former times, did not hesitate to use them in matters much less important, very little affecting the interests of the peoples.
But we must still admit that these funds, which were justified by the mores of earlier times, is not suitable to use in an age of kindness and tolerance in an age of so humane as our XIX century, marked by the invention of magazine rifles, semiilliterate bullets with incredible range, in the century in international relations permits the use of bombs containing explosives ending in "itis."