Excerpt from An Essay on Crimes and PunishmentsIf it can only be proved, that the seveeity of puinishments, though not immediately contrary to the public good, or to the end for which they were intended, viz. To prevent crimes, bemse less, then such severity would be contrary to those beneficent virtues, which are the couse quence of enlightened reason, which instructs the sovereign to wish rather to govern men in a state of freedom and happin...
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