“It is impossible to scan any newspaper, no matter the day, month, or year, without finding on every line evidence of the most appalling human perversity. Every newspaper, from first line to last, is a tissue of horrors. Wars, crimes, thefts, lewdness, tortures, crimes by princes, crimes by nations, crimes by individuals, a debauch of universal atrocity. And this is the disgusting appetizer that civilized people take at breakfast every morning. ”
