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Impropriety of the Phrase, "that Such a CRIME deserves Such a PUNISHMENT. 110
There is a phrase, the banishment of which from the page of
the Dissertation, will mark out be the epoch a singular signal improvement in
Penal Jurisprudence — Induced influenced determined by habit to connect the Idea
of a particular punishment with that of a particular Crime,
we are apt to say, x have acquired imbibed a propensity speak of the crime that such a crime as deserving that
punishment — "murder (they will may say, almost unanimously)
"deserves murder death " "Blood will have Blood" — Led
on by verbal delusion from error to error
they a connection which because they see habitual customary they call natural,
and because natural, necessary and indissoluble — the punishment
belongs as it were to the crime, and the forbearing to 1 2 with deserving it 3 4
[annex it in it's full vigor] they consider as [is a species of injustice analogous
& being as it were the 5 the not rendering a man his due ^<add>is treated as a species of injustice.</add>
A sort of Shock is conceived to be given to the moral system by an atrocious Crime, the x produced it which is x and a sort of equilibrium as it were restored, by a supposed x punishment as a countershock
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