Mark Twain and Aldous Huxley both share the same view on how lynching is a malicious evil that is derived from the loss of morality and courage. Twain makes his point of loathing lynching clearly when he said lynching is “disease” in “United States of Lyncherdom.” He makes it clear that people have lost their morals when he describes what they are doing as a disease. Similarly, Huxley calls it “herd-poisoning” which also views what the people are doing as some form of disease. Because Huxley uses the word poisoning, the diction of his and Twain's is very comparable. Both of their dictions are representing the evils of lynching which is shown in their descriptions of them. Moreover, Twain feels as though people who lynched have lost all their