Excerpt from Politics and Personalities: With Other EssaysI was lately addressing an audience of working men on the ethical aspects of war. After the address there was a discussion, and the question which excited the keenest debate was: "What are we to do with the Kaiser when the war is over?" In vain I reminded my friends of the adage about catching your hare before you cook him. Some - a few - were for St. Helena, the great majority were for capital punishment - either by shooting, as befits an officer and a gentleman, or by hanging, as the appropriate doom of one who has placed himself outside the pale of humanity. These interesting dissertations turned my thoughts to the venerable theme of Tyrannicide - to those who have practised it, and to those others who, in prose or in verse, have extolled it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.