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Order is shattered in a strange guttural tone that resounded along the walls of
the houses, which seemed dead and deserted, while, behind the closed shutters,
eyes watched the conquerors, who, by right of war, were now masters of the city
and of the lives and fortunes of its people. 



In their darkened ruins the inhabitants have given way to the same feeling of
panic which is aroused by natural cataclysms - those devastating upheavals of
the Earth, against which wisdom and strength alike are of no avail. 



Though the same feeling is experienced wherever the established order of things
is upset, when security ceases to exist, when all that was previously protected
by the laws of man and nature is suddenly placed at the mercy of brutal,
unreasoning force. 



The earthquake, burying a whole people beneath the ruins of their houses; the
river in spate, sweeping away the bodies of drowned peasants, together with the
carcasses of cattle and rafters torn from roofs; and the victorious army
slaughtering all who resist, making prisoners of the rest, looting by right of
the sword, and thanking their god to the sound of cannon. 



All these are terrifying scourges which undermine all our belief in eternal
justice and all the trust we have been taught to place in divine protection and
human reason.