An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Essay on Crimes and Punishments If it can only be proved, that the seveeity of puinishments, though not immediately contrary to the public good, or to the end for which they were intended, viz. To prevent crimes, bemse less, then such severity would be contrary to those beneficent virtues, which are the couse quence of enlightened reason, which instructs the sovereign to wish rather to govern men in a state of freedom and happiness than of slavery. It would alsobe contrary to justice and the social compact.chap. IV. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.