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"It is time, says the Author of a late publication entitled Principles of Penal Law+ + 209 Errors plainly shown to be such, might be thought not to exist were no one vouched for them. that crimes"
"are to be aestimated in some degree by the actual mischief done to Society; because the internal malignity"
"of mankind is not cognizable within the cognizance of human tribunals.
"But if this position were received in it's fullest latitude, it would prove too much; it would"
"prove that every act of Homicide is equally criminal, & that the intention is in no case to be"
"consider'd. The following instruction should then be adopted observed as inviolibly connected with the principle."
"Every member of Society hath a right to do any act without the apprehension of other inconveniences,"
than those which are the proper consequences of the act itself."
So many propositions, so many errors — It is true that crimes are to be aestimated by the
actual mischief (dele actual if opposed to contingent) done to society, as entirely & exclusively
and not in some degree only; and the Author himself had already established it for a maxim the maxim in another
simply & without any] reservation that "Crimes are to be aestimated in proportion to thisplace without reserve. 79 p-79
pernicious effects on Society."
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