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Page 58
... society would be the discovering , trying and punishing of offences . Intention too would be the corpus delicti , and this would have to be tried by fallible judges , liable to partiality and corruption , and by means of witnesses ...
... society would be the discovering , trying and punishing of offences . Intention too would be the corpus delicti , and this would have to be tried by fallible judges , liable to partiality and corruption , and by means of witnesses ...
Page 59
... society where polygamy is allowed , one of the means of gra- dually preventing polygamy was not to render divorces too difficult . It is essential to a moral law , as we have before intimated , that it tolerate nothing that is wrong ...
... society where polygamy is allowed , one of the means of gra- dually preventing polygamy was not to render divorces too difficult . It is essential to a moral law , as we have before intimated , that it tolerate nothing that is wrong ...
Page 60
... society , they might be wholly eradi- cated ? Now this is what infinite wisdom has done in the civil code of the Hebrews . The moral law he had given them . But that recently enslaved people were about to assume a new character . They ...
... society , they might be wholly eradi- cated ? Now this is what infinite wisdom has done in the civil code of the Hebrews . The moral law he had given them . But that recently enslaved people were about to assume a new character . They ...
Page 67
... society . Besides , with a people of extreme simplicity as to property , almost the only punishment must be personal ; and as they were emerging from a slavery where the taking of life was probably very common , capricious , and ...
... society . Besides , with a people of extreme simplicity as to property , almost the only punishment must be personal ; and as they were emerging from a slavery where the taking of life was probably very common , capricious , and ...
Page 68
... society is that in which the mind becomes familiarized to blood ; and it is a question of grave import , whether any thing is gained by abrogating even the sacred , and , if you please , superstitious , regard to human life which was ...
... society is that in which the mind becomes familiarized to blood ; and it is a question of grave import , whether any thing is gained by abrogating even the sacred , and , if you please , superstitious , regard to human life which was ...
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