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So violence

Proceeded, and oppression, and sword-law

Through all the plain, and refuge none was found.

Adam was all in tears, and to his guide

Lamenting turned full sad: ‘O what are these,

Death’s ministers, not men, who thus deal death

Inhumanly to men, and multiply

Ten-thousandfold the sin of him who slew

His brother; for of whom such massacre

Make they but of their brethren, men of men?’

—John Milton, Paradise Lost