Moral and Political Philosophy, ibid

29. Ibid. En 1784, 'Wilkes, dtnant avec Mirabeau et Romilly, défendait la fréquence des exécutions capitales par un argument également étrange. 9 He thougbt the happiest resulls foUowed fh)m the &everity of our pénal law. It accustomed men to a contempt of death, though it ncTer held out to them any very cruel spectacle; and he thougbt that mnch of the courage of Englishmen, of their humanity (oo, might be traced to the nature of our capital punishments, and to their being so often exhtbited to the people » (Romilly, MemoirSy vol. I, p. 84).