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depend on obtaining obedience to the laws, or on
being able to eradicate every crime through the
mere threatening of punishment, so that all
application of the penal-laws should as a natural
consequence cease; it must therefore, in the choice of
punishments, particularly consider the improvement
of such criminals, as are, through the execution of
the punishment, separated for some time from
society, and afterwards return to it again. The
improvement of criminals is consequently another
important aim which the legislation ought to
promote through punishment."
"They who, in considering the first mentioned
object of punishment, could imagine that all were
helped by severe punishments, and consequently
wish the introduction of terrorism into the
legislature, mistake not only human nature, but also
the demands of justice and the duties of humanity.
The experience of all periods and of all countries
shows, that extremely severe punishments harden
instead of deterring."
In accordance with this noble view of the
nature and object of punishment, the committee
have abolished flogging, which "as being of short
duration is, for the individual already morally
corrupted, less deterring than other kinds of
punishment. In him, on the other hand, whose feeling
of human dignity is not already smothered, this
debasing punishment crushes those dispositions for
improvement founded in human nature, brings him
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