10 Jahre Wiederaufbau

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Identifikator:: 1768152721

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-148079

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: 10 Jahre Wiederaufbau

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Wirtschaftszeitungs-Verlags-Ges. M.B.H.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: 664 S.; Ill.

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Title:: Die österreichische Landwirtschaft 1918 und 1928 / von Dr. Leopold Hennet, Sektionschef, Bundesminister a.D.

Collection:: Economics Books

25 Benjamin Franklin [178s the law of Moses was the law of God, the dictate of divine wisdom, infinitely superior to human, on what principles do we ordain death as the punishment of an offence which, according to that law, was only to be punished by a restitution of fourfold? To put a man to death for an offence which does not deserve death, is it not murder? And, as the French writer says, Dott-on punir délit contre la société par un crime contre la nature ? Superfluous property is the creature of society. Simple and mild laws were sufficient to guard the property that was merely necessary. The savage’s bow, his hatchet, and his coat of skins were suffi- ciently secured, without law, by the fear of personal resentment and retaliation. When, by virtue of the first laws, part of the society accumulated wealth and grew powerful, they enacted others more severe, and would protect their property at the expense of humanity. This was abusing their power and com- mencing a tyranny. If a savage, before he entered into society, had been told: ‘‘ Your neighbor by this means may become owner of a hundred deer; but if your brother, or your son, or yourself, having no deer of your own, and, being hungry, should kill one, an infamous death must be the consequence,” he would probably have preferred his liberty, and his common right of killing any deer, to all the advantages of society that might be proposed to him. That it is better a hundred guilty persons should escape than one innocent person should suffer, is a a

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