ABSTRACT
Delinquency and coercion incommensurable - External action no proper subject of criminal animadversion - How far capable of proof. - Iniquity of this standard in a moral - And in a political view. - Propriety of a retribution to be measured by the intention of the offender considered. - Such a project would overturn criminal law Would abolish coercion. - Inscrutability, 1. Of motives - Doubtfulness of history Declarations of sufferers. - 2. Of the future conduct of the offender - Uncertainty of evidence - Either of the facts - Or the intention. - Disadvantages of the defendant in a criminal suit.
