1821. April 17.

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Penal Law.

Exacted at the expence of the misdoer /evil doer/, compensation necessitates suffering: exacted in consideration of, and in proportion to, the evil done by him, that suffering, by the whole amount of it, operates as punishment.

In the first place, Compensation for the party injured; in the next place, over and above compensation, punishment for the benefit of the public - punishment for appeasement of the wrath of the offended and wrathful /exasperated/ monarch - such is the arithmetic of tyranny. Punishment including, the exaction to the profit of the Monarch, the exaction of the whole of that matter by which compensation to the individual injured might have been afforded; after that, compensation or no compensation to the individual injured.

Such is the order, the method of tyranny. Compensation by one course of procedure; punishment by another and a different course of procedure; reformation, by health given to the soul by a third and different course of procedure - such is the arithmetic of lawyercraft - confederate partner and instrument of tyranny; of lawyercraft in its most rapacious character, and elaborated garb - the chararcter and garb of the English lawyer.

Compensation and satisfaction are synonymous. Of the word compensation the psychological import has its root in the physical idea of weight: compensation is weight for weight: satifaction is giving enough for what has been suffered: enough of good for the evil that has been suffered: in such sort that the weight of the evil /good/ in the scale of enjoyment shall be equal to the weight of the evil in the scale of suffering.