The book Didactics: Social, Literary, And Political V.2 was written by author Walsh, Robert, 1784-1859. Cn Here you can read free online of Didactics: Social, Literary, And Political V.2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Didactics: Social, Literary, And Political V.2 a good or bad book?
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Whatever the impulse to guilt, some suppression or aber- ration of the reason may ever be alleged and admitted. In this mode, however, sentimentalists might argue or whine away the whole body of crimes and punishments. It is the duty of every true friend of humanity and order, to protest against perverted sensibilities or sophistical re- finements, which find warrant or apology for depraved appetites — for the worst distemperature of the mind and the most fatal catastrophes, — in natural propen...sion and unrestrained feeling. Spurious sympathy is a more pro- lific evil than sanguinary rigour, useless and pernicious as the latter is in our humble opinion. Public executions do greater harm than good — but are not worse than morbid public commiseration and entreaty for criminals, to whom the real justice of the law has been applied, after fair and merciful trial. As to public executions in general, it may be remarked that while the British are returning to a kind of ferocity in managing them, we are running into an opposite ex- treme, wearing the air of sickly sensibility and pious cant.
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