in one division of France, but in all the divisions of France, and in each distinct class of crime !... Thus maintaining between the different portions of the kingdom, a particular and almost invariable criminal ratio (if I may thus express myself), which none of the many casualties to which human life is subject, seem effectually to alter or control. A difference of this kind cannot be the effect of law, for the law in all parts of France is the same-it cannot be the effect of accident, because it would not, surely, in that case, perpetually recur. What has instruction to do with it-I mean that kind of instruction, on which persons, considering these subjects, usually found their propositions? |