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the most ferocious in with communicates his
ferocity, the most cunning his cunnery, the
most debauched his libert libertinism.
Every thing that can contaminate the heart
and the imagination, becomes subservient
to their penury. United by a common interest
the afford a pittance to the
shaking off the restraint of shame.
Upon the ruins of honor is raised
a new species of honor, composed of deceit,
courage under infamy, forgettable forgetfullness
of the time to come, and hatred to all the
species, and it is this that unfortunate
men, who might have been restored to virtue
& happiness, arrive reach the heroism of crime
& the of wickedness
A criminal after having when the term of
his imprisonment is expired, only has to be
restored to society without care and tell his friends
to receive his liberty is ascertained. To allow
a man at once to quit pass at once from a
state and con captivity, to some a state
of unconstrained liberty, to abandon him to all
the temptations de L'involvement of want and of
concupiscence sharpened by long privation, is
a species of carelessness & inhumanity which
call loudly for the attention of legislation.
What happens at London when the holds on
the Thames are emptied. Then malefactors,
in the of their crimes, march into the Town
like wolves, who after a long fast find themselves
in the midst of a flock of sheep: and
until all the robbers have been taken up
for fresh offences, there is no safety on the high
roads, nor even in the streets of London at
night
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