Capitolo 44
required as a satisfaction for the past. According to the other one it is a
_remedy_ that _goodness_ conceives for the benefit of the future.
Theologians are lost in speculations without end on the question
as in the government of God, punishment will be considered far, as
possessing one or the other of these two characters or both combined.
It seems to be also of the uncertainty in the minds of men in relationship to
the precise light in which the criminal punishments of violated law have to be
concerned by civil governments and the spirit in which they has to be
administered--theirs that am apparently, as prescribed and assumed more from
governments, in of the respects and to of the extension, retributive and
vengeful, and in the other respects repairer and curative.
However it would seem, that in in comparison to school and government of family
there could be no question on this point. A child's punishment from a
parent, or of a pupil from a teacher, certainly owes, one would think,
to exclude together the element of vengeful punishment, and to be
only assumed with reference to the healthy influences that can be
been waited by him in duration to come. If the injunction "Revenge is mine me,
it will refund him/it, saith the God" you/he/she will be recognized to everybody, it certainly
you/he/she should be admitted here.
This principle, fully admitted once and cordially simplifies the subject,
of punishment, as administered by parents and teachers, a lot. One
extremely important and very impressive result of him will appear from a
the reflection of moment. It is this, or rather:
It excludes completely and indeed all the demonstrations of irritation or
excitement in the infliction of punishment--all the sour tones of voice, everybody
knitting the eyelashes or angry glances, violent or threatening gesticulations entirely and
every other way, in fact, to express indignation or passion. This way
indications as these are completely out of place in considered punishment as
the _application of a remedy_ conceived beneficently with the you sole sight of