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1829. July 10.
(4.)
True it is that another case in
which mercy is said to be exercised is that in
which punishment which would otherwise
be applied, is, instead of being diminished,
kept unapplied withholden altogether. But in this case, a quantity
of punishment customarily applied to the species
of offence in question, is considered in an
aggregate mass; and in this case so it is, that
while to the individual lot, total exclusion is
applied, to the aggregate mass not total exclusion,
but only diminution is applied.
A sort of error pervading the whole
field of language is the taking from the observation
of a sign, i.e. a substantive, constitutive of a name, common or proper, inferring without reflexion,
and by the mere of the association principle,
the existence of a correspondent object signified.
Thus, in the present case, the word justice used
as the name of a thing, being in continual use,
is seem to be in existence; here we have the antecedent; therefore, so is a thing, so is the thing
signified by it: here we have the consequence.
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