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1. Principles of Penal Law.

The mutual dependence of mankind on each other is necessary for their mutual preservation; and the consciousness of this necessity is in the first formation of Societies, the instinctive principle of union; but reason cooperating with instinct points out the insufficiency of a deletion pastoral State /deletion addition State merely gregarious /addition ; The unlimited enjoyments of individuals are found incompatible with the existence of a collective body; rules of conduct are introduced, and the moral duties of benevolence, justice, and adherence to agreements, become as much acknowledged, as they are essential to human happiness.

Here then commences the obligation of Civil Laws; appetite ceases to be the sole motive of action, power the measure of property, and the natural herd is refined into a political government. Legislation is instituted, Magistracies are established, and Punishments are appointed by the common consent of all, for the benefit of all.

Thus Civil Liberty is formed by the deletion conjunction of /deletion addition collecting together /addition those portions of natural Liberty, given up by the constituent members of Society; but this effect is not instantaneous, the infancy of civilization is tedious, and its progress towards maturity subjected to many difficulties. Private resentment and the pursuit of private satisfaction, are at first the sole objects of criminal process; and the offended party is his own avenger. The general dispensations of Law, and the rendering the injuries of individuals punishable as such by the Society at large were of much later date, owing to its being opposite catchword to /catchword