The third section he thought too lenient.

"There is," said he, "a morbid sensibility sometimes called mercy, which affects a few of all classes from the priest to the clown, which has more sympathy for the murderer on the gallows than for his victim.

I hope I have a heart as capable of feeling for human woe as others.

I have long since wished that capital punishment were abolished.

But I never dreamed that all punishment could be dispensed with in human society.