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<head>Peines <hi rend="superscript">16</hi></head><!-- headings in pencil --> | <head>Peines <hi rend="superscript">16</hi></head><!-- headings in pencil --> | ||
<p><note> | <p><note>7<lb/> <add>Paley</add> Offenders swept into<lb/> by <hi rend="underline">numerous</hi> Statutes<lb/> <del>Th</del>Number of Statutes<lb/> creating capital <del>offences</del><lb/> punishment no proof<lb/> of <sic>compleatness</sic>, since<lb/> however numerous</note> | ||
By the <hi rend="underline">number</hi> — by the | By the <hi rend="underline">number</hi> — by the mere <hi rend="underline">number</hi> <add>it is, nor</add> without notice<lb/> | ||
taken of <hi rend="underline">extent</hi>, that is here said to do what it is here<lb/> | taken of <hi rend="underline">extent</hi>, that is here said to do what it is here<lb/> said to accomplish</p> | ||
said to accomplish</p> | |||
<p>Another error - and that too a vulgar one: and<lb/> | <p>Another error - and that too a vulgar one: and<lb/> | ||
not the less so for being a parliamentary one. By the<lb/> | not the less so for being a parliamentary one. By the<lb/> | ||
Reverend Doctor at least a professed teacher of logic -<lb/> | Reverend Doctor at least a professed teacher of logic -<lb/> | ||
had his hope been of a | had his hope been of a complexion fit for use this error <add>at least</add><lb/> | ||
might <add>would</add> have been avoided. And needs <add>needed</add> be there to be<lb/> | might <add>would</add> have been avoided. And needs <add>needed</add> be there to be<lb/> | ||
told that the number of statutes creating capital offences<lb/> | |||
might have been any number of thousands of times greater<lb/> | might have been any number of thousands of times greater<lb/> | ||
than it is, without being half so sanguinary as it is or<lb/> | than it is, without being half so sanguinary as it is or<lb/> | ||
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by successive statutes been taken for the subject of legislation?<lb/> | by successive statutes been taken for the subject of legislation?<lb/> | ||
and that <hi rend="superscript">[+]</hi> | and that <hi rend="superscript">[+]</hi> | ||
<note><hi rend="superscript">[+]</hi> under the existing "policy of chance <gap/> by which <add><del><unclear>about</unclear> with the exc</del></add> <del>is the policy</del | <note><hi rend="superscript">[+]</hi> under the existing<lb/> "policy of chance <gap/><lb/> by which <add><del><unclear>about</unclear> with the exc</del></add> <del>is the policy</del> really<lb/> <del>pursued</del>, with the exception<lb/> of the policy of particular<lb/> interest is the<lb/> only policy really<lb/> pursued,</note> | ||
on the ground <add><del>under the <gap/></del></add> of | on the ground <add><del>under the <gap/></del></add> of penal law as on<lb/> | ||
so many other parts of the field, the <hi rend="underline">scantiness</hi> of the provision<lb/> | so many other parts of the field, the <hi rend="underline">scantiness</hi> of the provision<lb/> | ||
made is no less flagrant than the <hi rend="underline">exuberance</hi>?</p> | made is no less flagrant than the <hi rend="underline">exuberance</hi>?</p> | ||
<p>Every <hi rend="underline">crime</hi>? by mere number and without regard to extent,<lb/> | <p>Every <hi rend="underline">crime</hi>? by mere number and without regard to extent,<lb/> | ||
is there <add>supposed</add> design fulfilled <add><unclear>then</unclear>, fulfilled</add> at all | is there <add>supposed</add> design fulfilled <add><unclear>then</unclear>, fulfilled</add> at all times <del>fulfilled</del> upon <hi rend="underline">every</hi><lb/> | ||
<hi rend="underline">crime</hi> which was within the grasp of it? <add>At the time in question</add> Every crime of<lb/> | <hi rend="underline">crime</hi> which was within the grasp of it? <add>At the time in question</add> Every crime of<lb/> | ||
the description in question being thus provided for at the time<lb/> | the description in question being thus provided for at the time<lb/> | ||
29 Jany 18089. Peines 16
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Paley Offenders swept into
by numerous Statutes
ThNumber of Statutes
creating capital offences
punishment no proof
of compleatness, since
however numerous
By the number — by the mere number it is, nor without notice
taken of extent, that is here said to do what it is here
said to accomplish
Another error - and that too a vulgar one: and
not the less so for being a parliamentary one. By the
Reverend Doctor at least a professed teacher of logic -
had his hope been of a complexion fit for use this error at least
might would have been avoided. And needs needed be there to be
told that the number of statutes creating capital offences
might have been any number of thousands of times greater
than it is, without being half so sanguinary as it is or
filling half so full as it has done the delectable delightful <add>convenient</add> net
he speaks of? Needed he to be told that metal after metal
and plant after plant have to this purpose
by successive statutes been taken for the subject of legislation?
and that [+]
[+] under the existing
"policy of chance
by which about with the exc is the policy really
pursued, with the exception
of the policy of particular
interest is the
only policy really
pursued,
on the ground under the of penal law as on
so many other parts of the field, the scantiness of the provision
made is no less flagrant than the exuberance?
Every crime? by mere number and without regard to extent,
is there supposed design fulfilled then, fulfilled at all times fulfilled upon every
crime which was within the grasp of it? At the time in question Every crime of
the description in question being thus provided for at the time
in question — whatever that time was — viz the time at which this
was working — how what would there have been left for the
wisdom and vigilance of succeeding legislators? and yet the
same work has been going on ever since, ever still
scanty as well as over still exuberant.
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