 ... riding paramount on the surface of society, was altogether to outweigh the rights, temporal and eternal, of the helpless, inarticulate mass below." Bulwer reminds us that "Society has erected the gallows at the end of the lane, instead of guide posts...  Capital Punishment in the United States - Page 23by Raymond Taylor Bye - 1919 - 106 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Wendell Phillips - Abolitionists - 1891 - 508 pages
...of punishment, is a failure, and that there is no remedy but education. As Bulwer has well said : " Society has erected the gallows at the end of the lane, instead of guide-posts and direction-boards at the beginning." There is, therefore, gentlemen, no reason, either... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - Abolitionists - 1891 - 514 pages
...of punishment, is a failure, and that there is no remedy but education. As Bulwer has well said : " Society has erected the gallows at the end of the lane, instead of guide-posts and direction-boards at the beginning." There is, therefore, gentlemen, no reason, either... | |
 | Capital punishment - 1913 - 278 pages
...outweigh the rights, temporal and eternal, of the helpless, inarticulate mass below." Bulwer reminds us that "Society has erected the gallows at the end of...guide posts and direction boards at the beginning." And Dr. William Ellery Channing says, in the same strain, "When I reflect how much of the responsibility... | |
 | Natural resources - 1915 - 318 pages
...system is a proven failure, isn't it time for a new dispensation? How truly has Bulwer reminded us that, "Society has erected the gallows at the end of the lane instead of guideposts and direction boards at the beginning!" Why then, being intelligent men, should we not reason... | |
 | Lewis Edward Lawes - Crime - 1928 - 316 pages
...the future, the courage and faith to progress toward those possibilities? Bulwer Lytton truly said: "Society has erected the gallows at the end of the...guide posts and direction boards at the beginning." VIII FACE TO FACE WITH DEATH Suppose you had some strange new disease which enabled your doctor to... | |
 | American literature - 1928 - 718 pages
...the future, the courage and faith to progress toward those possibilities? Bulwer-Lytton truly said: "Society has erected the gallows at the end of the...guide posts and direction boards at the beginning." Next Month: Who Is a Criminal — and Why? 322 Our Place in the World Are Supreme — Shall U^e Remain... | |
 | Donald A. Cabana - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 220 pages
...put to death in Parchman's gas chamber. Bill Armontrout would be there to watch. Parchman Revisited Society has erected the gallows at the end of the lane instead of guideposts and direction boards at the beginning. Bulwer-Lytton Returning to Parchman in the autumn... | |
 | Newton Martin Curtis - Capital punishment - 1891 - 4 pages
...It would indeed be better to reverse the order of procedure so graphically stated by LORD LYTTON : " Society has erected the gallows at the end of the...guide posts and direction boards at the beginning." Our criminal laws ought not to be enacted on the theory that their provisions chiefly concern the vicious... | |
 | 1920 - 536 pages
...respect the Home has tried to reverse the policy of society carried out through its courts, of "erecting the gallows at the end of the lane, instead of guide posts and direction boards at the beginning." Elizabeth Dunford, Nu '20, devotes most of her time working for the Legal Aid Society which performs... | |
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