For long ages, too, no notice whatever was taken of the criminal's sin ; he was regarded as harmful, not guilty, and looked upon as a piece of destiny; and the criminal on his side took his punishment as a piece of destiny which had overtaken him, and bore it with the same fatalism … In general we may say that punishment tames the man, but does not make him better.


pp. 38-39 - An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889)

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For long ages, too, no notice whatever was taken of the criminal's sin ; he was regarded as harmful, not guilty, and looked upon as a piece of...

For long ages, too, no notice whatever was taken of the criminal's sin ; he was regarded as harmful, not guilty, and looked upon as a piece of...

For long ages, too, no notice whatever was taken of the criminal's sin ; he was regarded as harmful, not guilty, and looked upon as a piece of...

For long ages, too, no notice whatever was taken of the criminal's sin ; he was regarded as harmful, not guilty, and looked upon as a piece of...