
Principles of Penal Law (1838). Übersetzung Vsop.de
("Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes." - Principles of Penal Law. From the French of Dumont and the MSS of Bentham. Part III. Chapter XVI Of the Cultivation of Benevolence. p. 562 , in: Works, now first collected under the superintendence of John Bowring. Part II. Edinburgh-London-Dublin 1838.