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to include it in ihe calculation, iuit only stale its possibility.
The sum is considerable, but the expense ought, however, to be considered from a higher point of view. We are now in a difficult epoch as regards the increase of crime, and in consequence of that the increasing danger for the public security. To prevent the farther extension of the evil, vigorous measures are necessary, ns well with regard to the legislation as to the houses of correction.
The existing law of 1734 is founded principally on the application of the physically-afflictive punishments, and adopts, in very few cases, the punishment by loss of liberty. Rut a dear-bought experience of the grievous consequences of flogging and penance, and the rejecting judgment of public opinion, have more and more limited their
application, so that, for instance, in punishing theft for the first offence, and generally the second when not attended with breaking into a house, imprisonment with bread and water has been introduced, although this punishment, on account of the short time it lasts, and the great differences in its greater or less severity in application, can by no means be considered as an approved psycological punishment. This transition has perhaps been called for by necessity, in order, so to speak, to throw a bridge between the old and the new views of justice so essentially differing from each other; but its dangerous consequences, if allowed to exist long, can
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