ABSTRACT

Its sphere described. - Its several classes. - Death with torture. - Death absolutely. Origin of this policy - In the corruptness of political institutions - In the inhumanity of the institutors. - Corporal punishment. - Its absurdity -Its atrociousness. - Privation of freedom. - Duty of reforming our neighbour an inferior consideration in this case. - Its place defined. - Modes of restraint. - Indiscriminate imprisonment. - Solitary imprisonment. - Its severity. - Its moral effects. - Slavery. - Banishment. - 1. Simple banishment. -2. Transportation. - 3. Colonisation. - This project has miscarried from unkindness From officiousness. - Its permanent evils. - Recapitulation.