During the excitement about the Jack the ripper murders there was much clamour about the police being too few, and we are subject to periodical panics as to our imperial defences, in the course of which no two persons agree in answering the question, what length are we to go?
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
One man, or one line of conduct, is as good, or as bad, as another, being all equally the products of Evolution, and aspects of the great Monistic principle;-"Jack the ripper," and Socrates, Messalina and Queen Victoria, Chief Justice Scroggs and Sir Thomas More, are none of them in any possible sense one whit better or worse than the others,-inasmuch as they all did but act as puppets actuated by one and the same original, playing its own part in them all.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard
Very quiet, inoffensive sort of chap, Fielding, but the girl's a ripper!
"A Maker of History"
E. Phillips Oppenheim