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However, it is perhaps impossible to hope that society will adopt any different attitude than that which it has taken in the past toward these unbalanced souls. In fact, it seems that a savage lex talionis is wholly satisfying to the feudists on both sides. Neither the one nor the other seeks to understand the forces driving them both.
A singular example of the lex talionis occurred among the natives at this place.
A third pronounces all punishment unjust, seeing that a man does not make himself criminal, but is made so by circumstances beyond his control by his birth, parentage, education, and the temptations he meets with. Then, for the apportionment of punishment, some persons think there is no principle like that of the lex talionis an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.
The Emperor was at his wits' end, and endeavoured to smooth down the contumacious Leyton, to save his capital from insurrection; imploring him to comply with the Lex talionis, and have two of his teeth drawn if he was inflexibly determined not to pay. The poor Emperor was in hourly dread of a revolution about this tooth business, and at the same time he knew the merchant had spoken the truth.
"This jest of thine hath a name, in law, wot you what it is?" "I knew it not! Peradventure I have been unwise. I never dreamed it had a name ah, sweet heaven, I thought it was original." "Yes, it hath a name. In the law this crime is called Non compos mentis lex talionis sic transit gloria mundi." "Ah, my God!" "And the penalty is death!" "God be merciful to me a sinner!"
"I came to collect natural-history specimens," said Brace warmly. "I don't want to slaughter ignorant savages." "Then you don't believe in that Italian law?" said the captain, with a chuckle. "Which Italian law do you mean?" said Brace, staring. "Well, Roman-Latin then, if you like. It's all the same, isn't it old Italian Lex talionis.
The LEX TALIONIS the Levitic law 'Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, is befitting only for savages. Unfortunately the Christian religion still promulgates and passionately clings to the belief in Hell as a place or state of everlasting torment that is to say, of eternal torture inflicted for no ultimate end save that of implacable vengeance.
It is woman's nature and wisdom to seek consolation for such afflictions as the deprivation of the beloved one's society, and the almost certainty that he is basking his faithless self in the sunlight of another's eyes. Our heroine, being at once ardent and philosophical, put the lex talionis into force by falling in love with one of her mother's lodgers, a sprig of the legal profession.
"An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," is the old lex talionis, and we have no objection to part with a limb on our side on the reciprocal condition that he shall be amputated of another. We engage to wage air battle with him on the stumps which are left, he with his fourteen millions of foreign against our ten millions of colonial trade, like two razées of first and second rates cut down.
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