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AN
ESSAY
ON
CRIMES and PUNISHMENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Of the Origin of Punishments.
LAWS are the conditions, under which men, naturally independent, united themselves in society. Weary of living in a continual state of war, and of enjoying a liberty which became of little value, from the uncertainty of its duration, they sacrificed one part of it, to enjoy the rest in
