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1827 June 9
Penal Code.
If the only life sacrificed or exposed to harm or sacrificed
were his own the act make the need and work of it would
be neither nothing worse than suicide; and without detriment to
any body for by the evidence of the best judge it is determined
not to be productive of any net amount of evil to
himself it the practice might be left to take its own course.
But by reason of an unfortunate turn twist taken by the
Public Opinion Tribunal under the dominion of early, if not primævil
barbarism by the turn taken in that early and immature age, and
though the vis inertia of mind continued down to the present time
by this combined act of follow combined with atrocity cruelty a
man is permitted to seek the of neither any man
of any other, of other on any , and make his for
his own benefit or his own caprice (which is the benefit corresponding
to the pleasure of the moment inform his by
the fear and danger and fear of mortal common called
capital punishment.†
Note ( )
† ☞ Draw a between a challenging and an oath. The
challenge a piece was the challenger: the
pretends to exercise a power which he does not exercise over the Almighty.
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