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quently Physically afflictive, commonly called
corporal punishments.
b) Psychologically afflictive, commonly called
mental punishments.
The former, or corporal-punishments, may be
said to have descended from the most ancient times.
They had their foundation in that feeling of
revenge, which in former ages was predominant in
the exercise of the right of punishment in the state,
and in the ignorance which then prevailed. It
requires indeed no trifling degree of
enlightenment to judge of the importance of mental
punishments, and to consider them sufficiently expiatory.
Private hate, or the violated instinctive feeling of
right, long prompted the human power of
invention, to vary, under a thousand forms, the cruelty
of corporal punishments. They were employed
not only in the chastisement of the criminal, but
also to force confessions where it was wished the
trespass might be found. It was necessary for
Christianity to wrestle for centuries against the
power of passion and prejudice; before it could
mitigate this barbarism, and clothe the remains of
heathen ignorance in forms more in accordance
with justice.
The principle of the application of physically
afflictive punishments reaches its height and its
extreme application, in capital-punishment; for beyond
this limit it cannot extend its power.
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