... Europe and even the security of insular England. Wordsworth became a stern Tory and a supporter of Puritan institutions: he even went to the extent of devoting several dull sonnets to the theme of Capital Punishment! His change of mind is a little complicated. We can, of course, understand his anti-Napoleon attitude. Perhaps the strong-est single factor here was Napoleon's treatment of the Negro who liberated ...
... was tried for a particularly brutal crime, the murder of his mother and father with an axe. Confronted with overwhelming evidence, the trial judge was on the point of delivering a judgement of capital punishment. At that moment the youth pleaded for leniency, addressing the judge thus: "My Lord, have pity on me, I am an orphan." 76 6. Irrelevant exaggeration: Example: Clarence Darrow, ...
... grown-up person who thinks differently. If he asks you about death, answer him. If he asks you questions designed to show that you are wicked or foolish, answer him. If he asks you about war, or capital punishment, answer him. Do not put him off with "you can't understand that yet", except in difficult scientific matters, such as how electric light is made. And even then make it clear that the answer is ...
... and overrides the absolute religious or moral law. But what if the inner view is changed, if the lawyer is awakened to the absolute sinfulness of falsehood, the judge becomes convinced that capital punishment is a crime against humanity, the man called upon to the battlefield feels, like the conscientious objector of today or as a Tolstoy would feel, that Page 34 in no circumstances is ...
... action to the Lord of action. If this teaching is in itself false, there is no moral basis for the hero, the soldier, the judge, the king, the legislature which recognises Page 452 capital punishment. They must all be condemned as criminals and offenders against humanity. It is undoubtedly true that since the revival of religious thought in India the Gita has ceased to be what Mr. Risley ...
... Yes, dear brethren in Christ, I dare to believe that my anchor holds." So might Robespierre have justified himself for the Reign of Terror, "It is true, Frenchmen, that I have always condemned capital punishment as itself a crime, yet am judicially massacring my countrymen without pause or pity; but my anchor holds. Yes, citizens, I dare to believe that my anchor holds." So argues Mr. Morley and all ...
... not be allowed to make claims contrary to its ethical temperament and aim, for science is only valuable in so far as it helps and serves by knowledge and progress the religion of humanity. War, capital punishment, the taking of human life, cruelty of all kinds whether committed by the individual, the State or society, not only physical cruelty, but moral cruelty, the degradation of any human being or ...
... years he could not endure to read Goethe; he found in Goethe's works "a profligacy, an inhuman sensuality" which he described as "utterly revolting". He wrote a whole series of sonnets praising capital punishment. Several traits of his character which were merely odd in his younger days became now cranky no less than offensive. Even in his younger days he had always a certain self-righteousness ...
... and overrides the absolute religious or moral law. But what if the inner view is changed, if the lawyer is awakened to the absolute sinfulness of falsehood, the judge becomes convinced that capital punishment is a crime against humanity, the man called upon to the battlefield feels, like the conscientious objector of today or as a Tolstoy would feel, that in no circumstances is it permissible to take ...
... serfs should be transferred from the feudal lord to a public magistrate responsible to a provincial court responsible to the sovereign. All trial should be open, torture should not be used, capital punishment should be abolished in law as well as in fact. Religious worship should be free; "amongst so many different creeds the most injurious error would be intolerance." The Nakaz, before being ...
... martyrs have accepted to sacrifice personal happiness and also the happiness of all those nearest and dearest, and even when irreparable suffering was inevitable as a result of the acceptance of capital punishment! That Sri Rama took a decision to exile Sita courageously and heroically and took the full responsibility upon himself and forbade even his brothers to give him any advice in this matter ...
... dear brethren in Christ, I dare to believe that my anchor holds.' "So might Robespierre have justified himself for the Reign of Terror, 'It is true, Frenchmen, that I have always condemned capital punishment as itself a crime, yet am judicially massacring my countrymen without pause or pity; but my anchor holds. Yes, citizens, I dare to believe that my anchor holds.' "So argues Mr. Morley and ...
... class belong those beings that effect miraculous cures and have great healing powers. Fifthly, to satisfy some desire or impulse like murder or lust. From this point of view you will see that capital punishment is absurd. The man who murders was, most probably, under possession of impulse of some being. When the man is executed the being takes possession of another. Many of those who commit murder have ...
... His testimony in court would have meant the death penalty for Sri Aurobindo, but mysteriously he was shot in his cell. Then came the day of the trial, and as everyone sat expecting a verdict of capital punishment, Sri Aurobindo's lawyer was seized by a sudden illumination, which spread through the entire courtroom and profoundly shook the jury: "Long after he is dead and gone, his words will be echoed ...
... about the first century that the laws were compiled. They must be embodying, of course, the former laws. There were punishments in those days, fines, corporal punishments, mutilation and even capital punishment. Disciple : If we had all these things, why have we Indians come to our present condition ? Sri Aurobindo : Present-day Indians have got nothing to boast of from their past ...
... clergyman detected in immorality explain himself to his parishioners.... So might Robespierre have justified himself for the Reign of Terror, "It is true, Frenchmen, that I have always condemned capital punishment as itself a crime, yet am judicially massacring my countrymen without pause or pity; but my anchor holds. Yes, citizens, I dare to believe that my anchor holds." So argues Mr. Morley and all ...
Share your feedback. Help us improve. Or ask a question.