He demands and is accorded, not a contest, but a punishment.

His opponent then proceeds to inflict as many and as bloody wounds as can be taken.

The object of the victim is to show his comrades that he can stand still while his head is half sliced from his skull.
Whether anything can properly be said in favour of the German Mensur I am doubtful; but if so it concerns only the two combatants.

Upon the spectators it can and does, I am convinced, exercise nothing but evil.

I know myself sufficiently well to be sure I am not of an unusually bloodthirsty disposition.