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Crimes and Punishments

Note 42 — Chapter IV · THE PROBLEMS OF PENOLOGY.

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So Seneca, De Ira., i. 16: ‘Nemo prudens punit quia peccatum est, sed ne peccetur. Revocari enim præterita non possunt, futura prohibentur.’ Compare ibid., ii. 31, and Plato, Laws, xi. 934 A.

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