For, lo, the great Guillotine, wonderous to behold, now stands here; the Doctor’s Idea has become Oak and Iron; the huge cyclopean axe ‘falls in its grooves like the ram of the Pile-engine,’ swiftly snuffing-out the light of men! “Mais vous, Gualches, what have you invented?” “All great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice” Guillotines are back in…