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a malefactor as such no mischief
is ever done but in pursuit of some
special advantage with a reasonable
prospect of immunity as well as success:
of which several limitations there
is not one that operates in favour of the
public in the madmans case. In
its application to malefactors, this supposed
necessity has in a pointed manner
been disproved by experience. In the
Grand Duchy of Tuscany under the
Government of Leopold afterwards
Emperor for a course of years in no
instance was this punishment inflicted
or by law capable of being inflicted
and yet neither to any greater Degree
in point of mischief nor to any greater
extent in point of frequency did the
public Security suffer violation than
in the equal number of Years under
the influence of Capital Punishment
in that some Country during a former period
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law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net) |
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[[watermarks::[simplified hanoverian royal arms] 1821]] |
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