Excerpt from Crime and Punishment: The Mark System, Framed to Mix Persuasion With Punishment, and Make Their Effect Improving, Yet Their Operation Severe
The increase of crime and deteriorating effect of our ordinary punishments are admissions in the mouths of many, but would seem to be laid to heart only by few. They elicit frequent expressions of regret, but they do not lead to energetic acts of improvement. The individual corrupter of youth, or betrayer of comparative innocence, when brought to justice is ostentatiously censured; but the wholesale process continues with little notice.
Many circumstances may be considered to account for this apathy, though certainly none can justify it. The rude justice of early times, retaliation, still complicates the subject; and faint hearts sink under the difficulties thus alone created. We sow the wind, and suffer ourselves to be overborne by the whirlwind. We seek to overcome evil by evil, and think that good cannot be obtained because the result of this process is more evil still.
The present writer has enjoyed many peculiar facilities for observing and reflecting on this subject.
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