Note 43 — Chapter IV · THE PROBLEMS OF PENOLOGY.
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The same is the philosophy of the nursery-rhyme book:—
‘That’s Jack. Lay a stick on his back. What’s he done? I cannot say. We’ll find out to-morrow, and beat him to-day.’
So said also a more serious authority, Periander, tyrant of Corinth, sometimes counted among the Seven Wise Men of Greece: μὴ μόνον τοὺς ἀμαρτάνοντας άλλὰ καὶ τοὺς μέλλοντας κόλαζε. ‘Punish not only those who have done wrong, but those who are going to.’