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t erw ^ rds lfce man took up ' with l esser r ^ aspn ; that is , to have been deceived by another like h # r-
se } f . " y . E . B . v . Ch . iv . Who shall decide when doctors disagree f It will , probably , be soon decided that critics , even those worthy of the name , are sometimes employed
magno conatu magnas nugas dicere . P . 27 . Sir Thomas More , S ? c . To these should be added Bishop Berkeley . In 17 $ 5 , he published , in Ireland * the Ouerist . contAinincr m Irelandthe Queristcontainin
, , g several Queries proposed to the consideration of the public . " Among others , on various topics of national industry s * nd political economy , are the
followg * \ * ' ^> 3 . Whether some way might not be found for making criminals useful in public works , instead of sending them either to America or to the other world ? 54 .
Whether servitude , chains and hard labour for a terrn of years , would not be a more discouraging , as well as a more adequate punishment for felons than even death
itself ? 392 . Whether felons are not often spared , and therefor * encouraged by the compassion of those who should prosecute them ? 393 , Whether in ^ Dy that would not take s ^ w ^ y the life of a thief may not nevertheless be willing to bring him
to a more ad ^ qu ^ te punishment i " In 1737 * was published ^ nonymously , as a translation from the Italian , " The Adventures of Signor Gaudentip di Lucc ^/ ' who . is made to discover another Utopia far
distapt in the Arabian de $ ert . Of this discovery he gives ajn account to th $ holy Fathers of the Inquisition at Bologaa , The ingenious author evidently contrived \ m . romance to couvtey hia own' sentiments on various , important questions of do-
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mestic and civil policy . In the following passage , he declares a « gainst capital punishment , even in
the case of murder . iC There is a positive law among the Mezzaraneans not to shed human blood voluntarily . They carry this fundamental law of nature to such a height , that they
never put any one to death even for murder , which very rarely hap . pens ; that is , once in several ages . If it appears that a person has real , ly murdered another , a thing they
almost think impossible , the person convicted is shut up from all commerce of men , with provisions to keep him alive as long as nature allows . After his death the fact
is proclaimed , as Jt was when they shut him up , over ail the Nomes . His name is blotted out of all their genealogies ; then his dead body is mangled just in the same manner as he killed the innocent ,
and afterwards burnt to ashes , which are carried up to the highest part of the desert , and then tossed up into the air , to be carried away by the winds blowing from their own country : nor is he ever more to be reckoned as one of their
race , and there is a general mourning observed throughout the king * dona for uine days , * ' Pp . 173 , 4-. Dr . Kippis ( B . Brit . ii . 261 . ) attributed the adventures of Gau ,
dentio di Lucca to Bishop Berkete y * but in the next volume declared this a mistake , on the authority of the Bishop ' s sorv . The
work has lately been ascribed by a writer in the Monthly Magazine ( xxxii . 220 . ) to " Simon Bering * ton , a Romish priest in . Shrop * frhire . ** 1 remember to have seen
this work attributed to the Rev . Jumes Ridley , author of the Tales oi the Genii , who died in If 6 & ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 239, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/31/
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