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As we grow older we grow wiser ;—we British , like all the rest of the world . It is true , we are not so wise in the matter to which this book relates as we thought ourselves a good many years ago ; but the having found this out , is in itself an advance . A good many years ago , we thought we had discovered the best
possible mode of punishing criminals . We were mistaken there ; we do not yet know the best ; but we have clearly made out what is the very worst . We have only to try again , as Dr . Whately tells us , and we shall be sure to do better ; for it is not possible for so rich a variety of mischiefs to attend any other species of punishment as have been brought upon us by the establishment
of penal colonies . He bids us not waste our time in deliberating about the comparative merit of various penitentiary plans . Let us try any , —all , —rather than delay the abolition of our transportation system : anything will prove better than that ; and it will be wiser to learn what is really best by making trial of several plans , than to philosophize idly while the worst system of all is accumulating evils upon us every day . € 1 €
In the present state of " our knowledge , he says , it would perhaps be our wisest and safest course to establish , in different places , several penitentiaries on different plans , such as may seem to have the most to recommend them ; and after a trial of a few years to introduce modifications as experience shall suggest , and remodel the less successful on the pattern of those which may be found to answer their purpose better . I do not , of course , mean that we should try experiments at random , or
adopt every suggestion of the wildest theorists : but if we made trial of those plans in favour of which sound reasons could be offered , and were careful to guard in every case against such errors as might plainly be shown to be such , and to tend towards the defeat of our object , there can be little doubt that , in the
course of a very few years , we should be enabled by attentive observation to ascertain what system worked best . And we may rest assured that none could be more exceptionable than the existing system of transportation . * Thoughts on Secondary Punishments , in a Letter to Earl Grey . By Richwl Whatery . 1 > D ., Archbishop of Dublin . London , FeUowes .
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SECONDARY PUNISHMENTS * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1832, page 667, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1822/page/19/
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