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<note>Conclusion <lb/>Legislation<lb/> choice of evils<lb/></note><p>Forget not that human <add>penal</add> policy is but a choice of<lb/>evils: be content with choosing the least: and<lb/>do not in your zeal to <del> | <note>Conclusion <lb/>Legislation<lb/> choice of evils<lb/></note><p>Forget not that human <add>penal</add> policy is but a choice of<lb/>evils: be content with choosing the least: and<lb/>do not in your zeal to <del>thr</del> exclude the less, give<lb/>admittance to the greater. [Consider that] simple<lb/>death is almost always <add>either</add> unnecessary or unavailing: <lb/><note>Impropriety of <lb/>simple death<lb/></note>unnecessary <del>so long to</del> <add>against</add> those whom pain will frighten<lb/>or confinement will restrain: unavailing against<lb/>those who fly to it as a refuge from despair.<lb/>The policy of the legislator who punishes every<lb/>thing with death is the policy of a <add>the</add> woman<lb/>who crushes a spider because she does not like<lb/>to look at it. The <del>policy</del> <add>humanity</add> of him who <del>resolves</del> <add>can</add><lb/>on no occasion <add>can bear endure</add> to make it more terrible than it is<lb/>made by nature is the <del>policy</del> <add>humanity <del>virtue</del></add> of the surgeon<lb/>who will not bear to amputate a limb.<lb/></p><p>Once more then distinguish between crimes:<lb/>and as well by the proportions established between <lb/>delinquency and punishment as by <del>all</del> <add>every</add> other means<lb/><add>strive to</add> change all mischief into that for which money<lb/>is a cure. The attainment <add>accomplishment</add> of this point is the<lb/> <note>ne</note> | ||
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Indirect Legislation
Conclusion
Conclusion
Legislation
choice of evils
Forget not that human penal policy is but a choice of
evils: be content with choosing the least: and
do not in your zeal to thr exclude the less, give
admittance to the greater. [Consider that] simple
death is almost always either unnecessary or unavailing:
Impropriety of
simple death
unnecessary so long to against those whom pain will frighten
or confinement will restrain: unavailing against
those who fly to it as a refuge from despair.
The policy of the legislator who punishes every
thing with death is the policy of a the woman
who crushes a spider because she does not like
to look at it. The policy humanity of him who resolves can
on no occasion can bear endure to make it more terrible than it is
made by nature is the policy humanity virtue of the surgeon
who will not bear to amputate a limb.
Once more then distinguish between crimes:
and as well by the proportions established between
delinquency and punishment as by all every other means
strive to change all mischief into that for which money
is a cure. The attainment accomplishment of this point is the
ne
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