1941. CRIMINALS, Reformation of.—
A member of society, committing an inferior
injury, does not wholly forfeit the protection
of his fellow citizens, but after suffering a
punishment in proportion to his offence, is
entitled to their protection from all greater
pain, so that it becomes a duty in the Legislature
to arrange, in a proper scale, the crimes
which it may be necessary for them to repress,
and to adjust thereto a corresponding
gradation of punishments.—
Crimes Bill. Washington ed. i, 147.
Ford ed., ii, 204.
(1779)
