But I am willing to hope, that if I forgive them on your account--that is to say, if I let them off in consideration of the good conduct of the ship's company, and in confidence of your all behaving well in future--they will be quite as much disposed to exert themselves to recover their characters, as if they had tasted the bitterness of the gangway: at all events, I'll try them and you for once.

Pipe down!" It is only necessary to state further, that for nearly a year afterwards there occurred no instance of drunkenness or neglect at the watering parties.
There is one other point of importance in this discussion, and as it seems to possess a considerable analogy in its bearing to the suggestions already thrown out, it may possibly have greater weight in conjunction with them than if it were brought forward alone.

In every system of penal jurisprudence it seems to be of the first importance to let it be felt that the true degradation lies more in the crime itself, than in the expiatory punishment by which it is followed.
Whenever this principle is not duly understood, punishments lose half their value, while they are often virtually augmented in severity.

The object of all punishments is evidently to prevent the recurrence of offences, either by others or by the offender himself.

But it is not, by any means, intended that he should not have a full and fair chance allowed him for a return to virtue.