Br what right, and with what object does the State punish criminals These questions have occupied social philorophers and reformers ever since social science first began to take shape, but the public has had little opportunity of weighing the different answers given. Quite recently, however, they have been made the object of elaborate discussion by Alfred Fouillée in a critical article based on the Intest works of French, German and Italian jurists. Life, in every one of its relations which bring man into contact with his fellows, is a conflict of wills. Social existence becomes possible only when conflicting wills as affecting life, liberty, and property are subordinated to a standard of outward expression. Hence, liberty in a free commanity is nothing abstract, but is the resultant of the conflict of
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