The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
...dastardly science of destruction had made rapid and alarming strides
No, that wasn't a typo. "Between 1858 and 1898...." This quote is from Major Arthur Griffith, Mysteries of Police and Crime , London, 1898, II, p. 469. It's quoted in: Walter Laqueur, A History of Terrorism , New Brunswick/London, Transaction Publishers, 2002
