Word: crime
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SENIOR FORENSICS. First Section. In the punishment of crime is there any object to be aimed at except the prevention of crime? References: Baccaria (des Delits et Peines), Bentham's Theory of Legislation, Livingston's Criminal Jurisprudence (introduction to La Code), Rantoul's speeches on Capital Punishment, Dymond's Elements of Morality, and other treatises on moral philosophy, passim. Time, first Tuesday in March...
...work for any interest but a popular one, and be careful that you do not work too hard for that. College interests are like the enchantress in the fairy-tale, who, when the forty days of her fondness were over, made her lovers pay a terrible penalty for the crime of having once pleased her too well...
...Retribution!" answered he. "My end was gained. Prayers were not abolished, but I, from that hour, was doomed to wander near the scene of my crime, until I should see done that which I most dreaded when alive. Nearly two centuries I have waited for the abolition of prayers, and still I see no sign of it. Until that takes place anguish unspeakable is mine...
...also interesting to notice that in Malory's history the legend seems tinged with the Greek idea of fate and of slowly coming retribution. Malory's Arthur is not the spotless knight of Tennyson, but one who has committed a deadly crime, the punishment for which and for the sins of his knights is gradually being developed...
...singular fact that a great preponderance of numbers in one sex over the other, unrestrained by ties of family and without the natural dependence of different occupations and stations of life upon each other, almost invariably defines a locality in which the various forms of crime exist to excess...