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upon murderers . Hence then , it is evident that our criminal code is inconsistent even with that of Moses ! But the Mosaic dispensation has been abolished , and one better adapted to the altered character of the times has been substituted for it—a dispensation which teaches , not to c exact an eye for an
eye , or a tooth for a tooth / nor ' to recompense any man evil for evil , ' but ' to overcome evil with good . ' Let us then endeavour to follow its precepts by granting freely to others that mercy which has been so freely bestowed upon us : recollectin g that whilst we neglect so to do , and continue to visit with vindictive cruelty the offences of those whom we deem greater sinners than ourselves , however much we may profess with our lips the
gratitude we feel for the superior privileges we enjoy , we shall fail to manifest its influence upon the heart ; and should death overtake us in our career of fo lly , may each of us fearfully anticipate , at the day of judgment , the application of the question , ' Oh ! thou cruel servant , I forgave thee thy debt because thou desiredst me : shouldest thou not also have had compassion on thy fellowservant , even as I had pity on thee ?*
In the foregoing remarks I have attempted to illustrate the fallacy of the arguments which have been urged in defence of c Death-punishment . ' I have endeavoured to show that such {punishment is both characterized by comparative inefficiency , and positive maleficence '—that whilst it attempts not the reformation of the criminal , it fails even to check the spread of
crime ; and finally , that whilst it is revolting to the better feelings of man , it is also directly opposed to the revealed will of Godallegations which , if I have succeeded in supporting , by the evidence which I have adduced , imperiously demand its instant erasure from that statute-book which it has been too long permited to disgrace . G . E . Eachus .
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336 On the Propriety of totally abolishing * Death-Punishment .
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Amid the restless elements of modern society ; amid the workings of that great strife between popular and aristocratic influences , between old despotisms and institutions , and the inquisitive , indignant , craving spirit of man excited by the stimulus of newlyacquired knowledge ; amid the shocks and heavingsof that moral earthquake , which many perceive with the deepest terror , not
knowing whether to deem more horrible the fall of ancient fabrics , which it shakes down , or the phantoms that seem to arise out oi the vapoury rifts of the hearing earth , and to the end of whose convulsions no eye can reach ; where can we look for something to repose upon , for some spot and atmosphere of quietness , where the timid may forget their real or imagined evils , and the bold may refresh themselves for new efforts in the groat human cause ?
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THE WRITINGS AND GENIUS OF CAROLINE BOWLES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1834, page 336, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2633/page/24/
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