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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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> ¦¦ \ Oft Capital Punishments . Glasgow 9 August 19 , 1811 , , Previously to ccmsidering the question ,-Whether Capital Punisbmettibe In any case justifiable ? it may be proper to inquire into the origin of crimes ; an inquiry of no small moment , and which ,
in different ages of the world , has led to different conclusions ; but , siting aside ail Satanic and sidereal influence as unworthy even of a refutation * we ought ta di aw oui ebnciiisioas from experiment
ana the observed nature of the bmm Constitution . —rNow , it aeijis a self-evident position , that JMJttfttien * being can choose pain *
as such ; there are many indeed who choose to do painful actions , but it is in the prospect of future lM ; oiytheydo ; actions whose
^« 5 Qqaences are painful , but the Pprehension of that pain is , at toe time , overborne by present PWure ; but I ask , what constu ii i Qrifne ? Is not an action J ? Ued . criminal , merely because lDe princi ple on which it proceeds * ould be productive of pain ? I be / old imleed that crime is S ^ atwhich is con t rary to Wrcv ^ tion which God Kau given
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of his will ; but setting afcide the difficulty of ascertaining any writings to be his will , his works exhibit a sufficient manifestation of it ; we have the evidence of our senses , that an action which by our constitution is attended with pain , has been forbidden to us by the Author <> f that constitution : it appears then undeniably to
follow that ignorance , or misapprehension of consequences is the st > le origin of crimes . It may be answered , many cornmit crimes when tney know the consequences to wh * ch they will lead . I answer , they may have been told the consequencea but this is far from amounting to a complete appre - hension ; none who are likely to read this paper , for example , can have a just conception of the ignominy and shame of a public whipping ,
We come now to * the question , Whether Capital Panis ^ ipent be in any case justifiable ? and wav . ing the discussion , Whetljfci- any man or body < bf men be justified mi taking , on whatever pfefferfce , what they cannot restore ? there are * three positions which appear td me attogether incontiGvertable . 1 st . Punishment is intended ,
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THE fttONTHX Y RE P O SITORY OF Theology dnd General Literature . « ¦ 1 r . . ¦ , . ' ;_ * - •'• _^_ . 11 - ------ ..- *• -. _ , . ^ m . . "•
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Uo- LXXI . ] NOVEMBER . [ Vol . VI .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1811, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2422/page/1/
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