Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Exhibitions, Military Technology, Human Development, Animal Behaviour, Crime, Technology

    Endorses the display of weapons at the International Exhibition because they 'remind us how very much lower we are than angels' and how close we are to 'some foreigners who are very little above fiends'. Questions why the exhibition only displays machines for inflicting harm on enemies, and not on 'ourselves under necessity of self-defence'—for example, 'the crank', 'treadmill', and the gallows.