• At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

    Thomas Bailey Aldrich: At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.
    Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”