This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...individuals and their government: --Those which arise between different states, or the subjects of different states. Eights and duties arise between individuals in such a manner that the community is not immediately concerned with them. For example, in a civilized country, if a merchant do not deliver corn to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...individuals and their government: --Those which arise between different states, or the subjects of different states. Eights and duties arise between individuals in such a manner that the community is not immediately concerned with them. For example, in a civilized country, if a merchant do not deliver corn to a purchaser according to the contract of sale, the violation of the right of property does not immediately cause any injury to the rest of the community. Bights and duties arise between individuals in such a manner that the community is immediately concerned, and immediately suffers by the infringement. If a burglar break into a house at night, or if a highway robber assault and murder a traveller, independently of the parties immediately wronged, the rest of the community is directly injured. Persons in the neighbourhood of the burglary are put to the expense of protecting their houses by additional safeguards. Perhaps they are obliged to pay additional taxesfor police. Terror is diffused. A sense of wrong is therefore sustained by the community, and vents itself in the punishment of the offender with an intensity proportioned to the degree of injury caused by him, and the degree of suffering felt by the people. Revenge is the origin of punishment. In the early stages of society punishment is severe according to the hatred against the offender, and the indignation which his neighbours feel towards him. The accumulated rage of a community against an individual murderer demands his death. Finally, in the more advanced stage of society, the reformation of the criminal is attempted, and punishment is used only as an example and a means for the prevention of crime, that the punishment may reach a few, the fear, all;--ut poena ad paucos, metus ad..
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