What Is True Civilization

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Excerpt from What Is True Civilization: Or Means to Suppress the Practice of Duelling, to Prevent, or to Punish, Crimes, and to Abolish the Punishment of DeathAdmitted, says the necessity that men should unite to form societim, and supposing the existence of those covenants, which forcibly would have been caused to proceed from the opposi tion of personal interests, we meet with a progredve series of dis orders, the highest term of which are those, which most directly affect society menacing its existence, and the lowest, the least injury done to an individual member of a society. O O O O O O O 0 fi fi 3 O If we were able, by means of geometry, to sub Init to calculation and to demonstration the infinitely varied and hidden causes of human actions, and the relation which these se tions bear to man, there ought to be a proportional scale of punish ments, which beginning from the most intense one, to correspond to the greatest criminal enormity, should descend, step by step, to the least intense punishment, to meet the slightest criminal offence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.