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1821 may to. The first lines penal law.
four. Under a limited monarchy, the quantity of punishment
capable of being applied not being so completely unlimited,
the quantity of mercy for which with its due reproach and undue praise
there is room, not quite so great. Room for it, however, always
exists, and is always occupied in enormous superabundance. The
unofficial intercession is mostly Out of the official arbiter
who, with the language in deportment of obsequious this on on pretense
of responsibility, dictates, on each occasion to the vice of God which of two courses
what course his next to divine pleasure shall take. In England, while men are condemned to death by
hundreds, they are executed death is inflicted on them by units: the difference between the
unit and the hundred has for its cause the purposes above –
mentioned. In practice the privilege of thus abandoning men
to destruction, or saving them from it, at pleasure is shared
among functionaries in rank, office, number and proportion, –
all indeterminate, or at best hidden from the eyes of all
but the few who share among them a sinister interest in
the abuses of it: a judge or lawyer of one class or denomination
on at one occasion time, of another on another. Along with,
and above them all, stands the arch functionary, who numbers
among his titles that of keeper of the Kings conscience:
a man out of whose mind, by the indiscriminate offense defense of right & wrong
with no other differences then the predilection naturally
conceived, for the best customer, everything that in any
other mind, has ever been designated understood by the name of
conscience has, long before his taking that exacted conscience, blank into his keeping, – been obliterated
every feeling but that
of the most complicated completely
sorted selfishness
the principal has not wreck? A
bribe – Sica's perhaps
some underling.
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