Excerpt from Crimes Against Criminals: An Address; Delivered Before the New York State Bar Association, at Albany, N. Y., January 21st, 1890
In this brief address, the object is to suggest - there being no time to present arguments at length. The subject has been chosen for the reason that it is one that should interest the legal profession, because that profession to a certain extent controls and shapes the legislation of our country and fixes definitely the scope and meaning of all laws.
Lawyers ought to be foremost in legislative and judicial reform, and of all men they should understand the philosophy of mind, the causes of human action, and the real science of government.
It has been said that the three pests of a community are: A priest without charity; a doctor without knowledge, and a lawyer without a sense of justice.
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All nations seem to have had supreme confidence in the deterrent power of threatened and inflicted pain.
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