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The infliction of flogging, he argues, undeniably answers in these cases, both as a sharp and effectual punishment, and also as a deterrent from future misdoing.
gpt
To us it appears an obvious certainty, that whatever punishment is believed to be righteous--whether the whipping of a child, the shooting of a soldier, the constraint of the treadmill, or whatever else--is wholly free from the least tendency to brutalize the officers who inflict it. As to the wisdom of this statement, one would think, there could be no question. He quotes our old laws as regards the practising of public floggings, and adds,
human
We cannot hesitate to believe that all outrages on women ought to be punished by the severest whippings.... Dastardly offences against the weak and the weaker sex eminently call for this punishment; and in such offences may be included the seduction of a woman. That offences against the body should be visited by punishment _on_ the body is beyond all doubt just. Had we been in the past, or were we at the present moment, as eager as we ought to be for defence, for justice, to be given to the citizeness as equally as to the citizen, there would not be so many wrongs done to the weaker sex as now is the case in England. Newman strongly condemns long sentences and transportation, not so much on account of the prisoner, (though for him the long term of