text:  But what a picture does he there exhibit! The writhing sinner plunged headlong into the boiling waves rising to the surface and a hundred demons mocking his sufferings and with outstretched hooks tearing his flesh till he dived again beneath the liquid fire! It is the reality of the scene the images familiar yet magnified in horror which constitutes its power: we stand by; our flesh creeps as it would at witnessing an _auto-da-fe_ of Castile or on beholding a victim perishing under the knout in Russia