ench monarch. Like the Phrygian monk who
leaped into the arena in Rome to separate the maddened gladiators, and
who was stoned to death by the angry and brutal mob of spectators whose
amusement he stopped, Napoleon's work has had its results, in spite of
Waterloo and St. Helena. The martyrdom of the poor monk caused an
abolishment of the brutal sports of the Colosseum, which henceforth
crumbled to pieces. Little did the people look for this result who
trampled the monk under foot. Neither did Blucher, debouching on the
English left with Bulow's battalions on the evening of Waterloo,
foresee, some fifty years later, Prussia extending its hand to make a
united Italy, which with Napoleon--who was by blood, nature, instinct,
and education an Italian--had been the dream and ambition of his life.

Eunuchism as a punishment is an old practice, as the ancient Egyptians
inflicted it at times upon their prisoners of war; so it formed part of
their penal code, and we are told that rape was punished by the loss of
the virile organ; a like punishment for the same offense was in vogue
with the Spaniards and Britons; with the Romans at different times and
with the Poles the punishment was castration. The difficulty of proving
the crime, as well as the ease with which the crime could be charged
through motives of revenge, spite, or cupidity on innocent persons,
should never have allowed this form of punishment to be so generally
used as history relates that it was; rape being one of the most complex
and intricate of medico-legal subjects, unless we take M. Voltaire's
summary and Solomonic judgment, who relates that a queen, who did not
wish to listen to a charge of rape made by one person against another,
took the scabbard of a sword and, while she kept the open end in motion,
asked the accuser to sheath the sword.

Count Raoul Du Bisson, _Dedjaz de l'Abyssinie_, gives some very
interesting information in regard to eunuchism in his work entitled "The
Women, the Eunuchs, and the Warriors of the Soudan." Count Bisson has
looked on the question from its moral, physical, and demographic
stand-points, and, having seen eunuchism in its different aspects, from
his landing at Alexandria and Cairo, down through his different
expeditions into Arabia, the Soudan, and Abyssinia, his observations are
well worth repeating.

From a demographic and statistical view of the subject, its truly
Malthusian results become at once shockingly and persistent