An Essay On Crimes And Punishments Translated From the Italian With a Comment
An Essay On Crimes And Punishments Translated From the Italian With a Comment
Cesare Beccaria
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59 virtue has been too much admired, referved for the flaves alone. What is the political intention of pu- nlihments ? To terrify, and be an exam- ple to others. . Is this intention anfwered, by thus privately torturing the guilty and the innocent ? It is doubtlefs of import- ance, that no crime fhould remain un- punished ; but it is ufelefs to make a pub- lic example of the author of a crime hid in darknefs. A crime already committed, and for v^hich there can be no remedy, can only be puniflie...d by a political fociety, with an intention, that no hopes of impu- nity fhould induce others to commit the, fame. If it be true, that the number of thofe, who from fear or virtue refped: the laws, is greater than of thofe by whom they are violated, the rillc of torturing an inno- cent perfon is greater, as there is a greater probability, that, c ceteris paribus y an indi- vidual hath obferved, than that he hath in- fringed the laws. There 6o ANESSAYON There is another ridiculous motive for torture, namely, to purge a ?7ian from in- famy.
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