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It is recorded of an old-fashioned schoolmaster that in the course of fifty years he administered to his pupils nearly half-a-million canings, and a hundred and twenty-four thousand proper floggings! This pedagogue, who in the days of Solomon would have been a man after that wise king's own heart, may be taken as the type of a class of teachers who flourished "in the good old days" - rigid disciplinarians who never spared the rod nor spoiled the child. Happy schoolboys of the present day have no knowledge or faint notion of those times, or of the severities under gone at school by their fathers and grandfathers. Flagellation, except for garrotters, has gone nearly out of fashion in England, and the birch of today is but the ghost of what it was a hundred years since, and the rod even of that period was only a faint shadow of the terrible whips and scourages of a much earlier age.Cooper, William M. is the author of 'Flagellation & the Flagellants A History of the Rod in All Countries from the Earliest Period to the Present Time' with ISBN 9781589632684 and ISBN 1589632680.
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