In the colonization of the West Indies, "when a city was to be founded,
the first form prescribed was, with all solemnity, to erect a gallows,
as the first thing needful; and in laying out the ground, a site was
marked for the prison as well as for the church."
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"An attempt to handle the English law of evidence, in its former state,"
says the _Edinburgh Review_, "was like taking up a hedgehog--all
points!"
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Man is not quite so manageable in the hands of science as boiling water
or a fixed star.
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