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(1842) [MARC] Author: Oscar I Translator: Alfred May
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box has been opened, from which innumerable
misfortunes and sufferings will stream forth. The
same was feared when torture, the rack and other
abominations were abolished; and nevertheless the
progress of justice has been, since then, as
undisturbed as before, and crime has found its well
deserved punishment.

I respect, for the rest, every one’s opinion on
this difficult subject, which I have unwillingly touched.
But as the question has so close a connection with
the present work, and contains so deep a moral
signification, I have considered it a sacred duty to
present it for a more general consideration.

Since enlightenment, in its increasingly rapid
progress, has driven from our criminal legislation,
the most barbarous corporal punishments, as
mutilation, branding &c.[1], there remain in our present
code, whipping and scourging, as the last traces of
the views of justice entertained in past times.

Flogging, which is accompanied with indelible
dishonour, is perhaps still more unreasonable than
even capital-punishment; in the latter case the
physical existence of the criminal is destroyed; by
flogging, on the other hand, the possibilty, almost,
of his future improvement. The right of
punishment in the state, whose object is, to restore, by
the very application of punishment, violated justice,
and to warn and improve, has, then, wandered so


[1] To the honour of our native country it may be observed,
that they have never been used in Sweden.

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