ABSTRACT
The Growth of Opposition SINCE the earliest days of civilization there has been opposition to the practice of torture. This opposition, however, has been in most cases a partial opposition only, since it merely concerned itself with judicial torture and not torture in toto. The use of forms of punishment or of execution which involved or were preceded by torture often enough received no denunciation from the bitterest opponents of the qu«stion. Thus Seneca recognized the injustice of torture and its futility as a means of arriving at the truth. So did Cicero. So did St. Augustine. So did Ulpian, the famous Roman lawyer. So did Tertullian.
