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Bertram listened with an interested but gravely disapproving face. "And do you mean to say," he asked at last "they send men to prison as criminals for catching or shooting hares and pheasants?" "Why, certainly," Philip answered. "It's an offence against the law, and also a crime against the rights of property."
Why send missionaries to other lands while every penitentiary in ours is filled with criminals? Is it philosophical to say that they who do right carry a cross? Is it a source of joy to think that perdition is the destination of nearly all of the children of men? Is it worth while to quarrel about original sin when there is so much copy?
This is the popular view of crime; yet no dog goes mad from choice, and probably the same is true of the great majority of criminals, certainly in the case of crimes of passion. Even in cases where self-interest is the motive, the important thing is to prevent the crime, not to make the criminal suffer.
"We talk a lot about authority and sovereignty, and I'm afraid we burn entirely too much powder over it, but government always seems to us like sovereignty interfering in matters that don't concern it. As long as sovereignty maintains a reasonable semblance of good public order and makes the more serious forms of crime fairly hazardous for the criminals, we're satisfied."
"Can you expect that I am to dip my own hands in the blood of this unfortunate man; or wilt thou seek a revenge yet more bloody than that which was exacted by the deities of antiquity, upon those criminals who offended against their divine power?"
The pillar where criminals were scourged stood to the north of Pilate's palace, near the guard-house, and the executioners soon arrived, carrying whips, rods, and ropes, which they tossed down at its base.
From that moment you have had but the one alternative. You must follow my commands, or you must take the common course of criminals, and go to prison. And now you Harley you John Harley you, who pride yourself for your respectability, for your place in the world, for your illustrious relative Senator Hanway hear me: You are to be my slave my dog to fetch and carry.
"Don't worry," said he, gently. "And after all I'm not surprised the necklace has been pinched." "Not surprised? Arthur!" "No. You collect here half the notorious smart people in London. Fifty per cent of them go through one or other of the Courts; five per cent end by being detected criminals, and goodness knows what per cent end by being undetected criminals.
Political offenders, vagrants, and other criminals were thus sent to the colonies, and many persons, especially boys and girls, were kidnapped in the streets of London and "spirited" away.
After his first audience with the Grand Seignior, Brune complained bitterly, of not having learned the Turkish language, and of being under the necessity, therefore, of using interpreters, to whom he ascribed the renewed obstacles he encountered in every step he took, while his hotel was continually surrounded with spies, and the persons of his suite followed everywhere like criminals when they went out.
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