better world to come. But if there is no life anywhere but on earth, if we have no expectation of any future punishment or reward, virtue is a fraud. Crime has only to find a way of skillfully evading the law. And should you happen to have a government headed by a few worthy and honest leaders who practice a gentle, bourgeois philosophy and are pleased to commute the sentences handed down by Justice, you will see the ranks of hardened criminals increase without letup. Since murder will be no more severely punished than theft, thieves will become murderers, and the murderers will say to
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