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Indirect
Imagination
A system of punishments by being thus picturesque so full of
imagery would have an additional advantage.
It would furnish allusions to poets poetry and dramatical to the drama, to
the newspapers, to ordinary conversation composers: Instead of being confined
to the works of lawyers
the ideas that belonged to it would be
circulated through a variety of channels reverberated by a thousand objects. , and disseminated
over the superficies track of common life
I know but of one instance in which the
idea of augmenting the terrors of the law by graphical
imitative representations has been taken up made use of by authority,
and in that one and in that instance the application that has I can not say much for
the judgment that has been shewn in the application of it been made of it has been far from happy. In
the copy which I have of the Codex Theresianus
the Code, (a) (a) The crim code of
criminal law enacted
by the late Empress
Queen
at the end there are a number of engravings
respectin representing the several modes of
given putting culprits to the torture. An exhibition
of this sort how similar soever it may appear
to at a first glance is as repugnant in its
tendency to that of the prints of punishment above
proposed as any thing that can be imagined. In
the latter case the legislator may be conceived to
say, "see here what miseries are the doom of guilt!"
in the former he seems to say, see here to what miseries
innocence may be exposed. To this publication
there
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