Chinese liberals such as Hu Shih often condemned the Boxers for their irrationality and barbarity. Laura describes Augustus's arrest as "treachery" and "barbarity" (Austen 522). Pamphlets and images depicted her execution as an act of German barbarity. These men have fallen victim of Iraq government barbarity. The people who believed in civic virtue belonged to a small majority surrounded by "barbarity". They then carried out acts of barbarity on their surprised visitors. Livy several times describes the barbarity of their raids into Campania. Faillon's writing places heavy emphasis on the duality between Christianity and barbarity. Captain McKinnon tried to stop what he considered his own regiments "barbarity". Even the Government [prosecutors] blinked at this barbarity. I don't think it was my book that prompted this barbarity. It has beauty and barbarity side-by-side.