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was then almost exclusively reserved for the higher
classes, begins to be more and more considered as
national-property, of which every member of
society is entitled to receive his proper share; a more
general acknowledgement of the value of man has
dispersed many prejudices, and unfolded the ideas
of constitutional relations. Ought not these causes
to have some effect on our judicial forms and our
theories of punishment?
But, it will be asked, cannot the acknowledged
faults be corrected, and improvements made where
they may be considered necessary, without
changing the whole criminal code? To this it is
answered, that to adopt partial adjustments of a code,
where the whole must be developed in systematic
order and logical consequence from certain
principles of justice, would be to deprive one’s self of
the good which the old when complete might
possibly contain, without gaining those advantages one
expects from the new. The evil has already spread
so widely, and threatens so fearfully to extend its
contagious ravages, that patchwork is not sufficient
for its cure.
This important reform must compose a whole
system, executed with energy and according to a
given plan, and taking up all those subjects which
are connected wilh it. These may be divided into
two leading heads, namely:
a) Those whose object is properly to prevent
crime by the removal of its most common causes;
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