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Others, who believe in the God-law, maintain that the engine is run not to kill but to protect, not to maim but to educate, and that the fault lies in the wrong application of the force, not in the force itself. So it was with this old man. To-day he was still in the maw of the machinery, his courage gone, his spirit broken, his heart torn.
Down in their hearts there still rang the piteous words. The man-made machine was breaking down; its mechanism out of "gear"; the law that governed it defective. The God-law, the law of mercy, was being set in motion. The voice of the Judge trembled a little as he delivered his charge, as if somehow a stray tear had clogged the passage from his heart to his lips.
They never left their seats. Even the red-faced man voted out of turn in his eagerness. The God-law had triumphed! The old man was free. The throng in the court-room rose and made their way to the doors, the old man going first, escorted by an officer to see him safely outside.
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