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has also, in all parts where it has been properly
employed, testified its efficacy."
Penal-labour is divided into five degrees, and
the grounds of division are, the difference in the
periods of punishment.
Imprisonment may be applied in three
different ways, the first simple imprisonment, the
second solitary confinement, and the third
imprisonment with bread and water.
In order to obtain a thorough conviction of
the correctness and value of the project, one ought
to read the answer of the committee to those
remarks which have been made against the theory
of punishment supported by them.
Sweden seems in all respects ripe for the
appropriation of an improved criminal legislation.
A dear-bought experience of the insufficiency of
the old punishments, and of the distressing
consequences of their debasing nature, has enlightened
the public mind, and prepared the transition to a
better legal doctrine. A happy peace gives us an
opportunity of improving our inward condition,
and a considerable pecuniary surplus, now ready
to be employed, affords means of introducing
improved houses of correction. The law adopted in
1734 and in force from 1736, was certainly
excellent for that period, and proved that our native
country Then stood high in legal science. But
during these hundred years European culture has
advanced with giant strides. Cultivation, which
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