Ibid., § xxviii

67. Voltaire a fait l'objection dans son Prix de la Justice et de l'Humanité, 1777. — Romilly lettre à Roget, 9 mai 1783j défend la peine de mort en se fondant sur le même raisonnement : a One reason why I cannot think that death ought so carefully to Le avoided among human punishments is, that I do not think death the greatest of evils. Beccaria and his disciples confess that it is not, and recommend other punishments as being more severe and effectuai, forgetting, undoubtedly, that if human tribunals hâve a right to inflict a severer punishment than death, they mîist hâve a right to inflict death itself».