horses; and human bodies, with hands and arms
severed from the corpse to which they belonged, floated about in
the crimson sea.

"In the midst of these frightful scenes, which have for ever
stained the glory of the conquerors, the Christians of the Holy
City crowded round Peter the Hermit, who five years before had
promised to arm the West for the deliverance of the faithful in
Jerusalem, and then enjoyed the spectacle of their liberation. They
were never wearied of gazing on the man by whom God had wrought
such prodigies. At the sight of their brethren whom they had
delivered, the pilgrims recollected that they had come to adore the
tomb of Jesus Christ. Godfrey, who had abstained from carnage after
the victory, quitted his companions, and attended only by three
followers, repaired bareheaded and with naked feet to the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre. Soon the news of that act of devotion spread
among the Christian army. Instantly the fury of the war ceased, and
the thirst for vengeance was appeased; the Crusaders threw off
their bloody garments, and marching together to the Holy Sepulchre,
with the clergy at their head, bareheaded and without shoes, they
made Jerusalem resound with their groans and sobs. Silence more
terrible even than the tumult which had preceded it, reigned in the
public places and on the ramparts. No sound was heard but the
canticles of repentance, and the words of Isaiah, 'Ye who love
Jerusalem, rejoice with me.' So sincere and fervent was the
devotion which the Crusaders manifested on this occasion, that it
seemed as if the stern warriors, who had just taken a city by
assault, and committed the most frightful slaughter, were cenobites
who had newly emerged from a long retreat and peaceful
meditations."--_Hist. des Croisades_, i. 440-446.

Inexplicable as such contradictory conduct appears to those who "sit at
home at ease," and are involved in none of the terrible calamities which
draw forth the latent marvels of the human heart, history in every age
affords too many examples of its occurrence to permit us to doubt the
truth of the narrative. It is well known that during the worst period of
the French Revolution, in the massacres in the prisons on Sept. 2, 1792,
some of the mob who had literally wearied their arms in hewing down the
prisoners let loose from t