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Show redressed, in silence and certainty. What we Gggap o call retribution is the universal necessity by Compengatio which the whole appears wherever a par appears. If you see smoke, there must b fire. If you see a hand or a limb, you kno that the trunk to which it belongs is ther behind Every act rewards itself, or in other words integrates itself, in a twofold manner: first in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly, in the circumstance, or in apparen nature. Men call the circumstance the retribution. The causal retribution is in the thin and is seen by the soul. The retribution i the circumstance is seen by the understanding; it is inseparable from the thing, but i often spread over a long time and so doe not become distinct until after many years The specific stripes may follow late afte the offence, but they follow because the accompany it. Crime and punishment gro out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected, ripens within the flower of th pleasure which conceale it. Cause an 1 Digital image ©) 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah. All rights reserved |