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183. The popular indignation against a great criminal is an expression, not of individual desire for vengeance, but of the demand that the criminal should have his due

184. And this does not mean an equivalent amount of suffering; nor such suffering as has been found by experience to deter men from the crime

185. Punishment, to be just, implies (a) that the person punished can understand what right means, and (b) that it is some understood right that he has violated

186. He will then recognise that the punishment is his own act returning on himself; (it is in a different sense that the physical consequences of immorality are spoken of as a 'punishment')

187. Punishment may be said to be_ preventive_, if it be remembered (a) that what it 'prevents' must be the violation of a real right, and (b) that the means by which it 'prevents' must be really necessary

188. Does our criterion of the justice of punishment give any practical help in apportioning it?

189. The justice of punishment depends on the justice of the system of rights which it is to maintain