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PUNISHMENT. ILLUSIONS on the Subject
Not wished for, against Keymis.
It is a contest of a distinguished very beautiful indeed in a Boctrial view, but which is
Hist.y of Crime. rather out of place in a subject work of that kind in which in which truth and not Beauty at variance with Truth is the [great] one thing needful [is the graced decideration] that a man
as grow as when he committs a crime, has a vast desire to be punished for it. them If it means that
punishment under any intrusiveness is desirable to men in itself: never yet had I ever
hear of such a man. If it means, that a man wishes for a punishment under a
confused notion of its exonerating him from a greater, it is as if any one were to dis-
cover that men have a vast desire to have their legs cut off. True it is, if their
legs are unarguably , in order to save their lives — thus true it is false, thus only is it also true that a man may wish
to suffer undergo the <unclear>finite suffering inflicted by human justice the hand of Man in the hopes of [investing] by
an the unequal exchange the indefinite vengeance expected from the wrath of heaven.
I make mention this remark, because that short but ingenious Instructive may being one of these few written on this sub-
ject that must [To have] and will probably have a permanent currency, it is worth while to makequestionable reading marking in it what is
not sterling, but as is usual, in these cases the esteem of men for the search which that is, should a reception
to the little which is not.]
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Let us not then such to form any such allusion upon the subject, as to speak as if an adversary concern went of a criminal wanting to be punished. if should at any time with giddiness or false hope he surrenders him
-self a voluntary captive victim to into the hands of Justice, it is well: but let us [not envision of this as being the ordinary
course of . ] ....
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