. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . com-pense; or, if that should fail, bythe law of avengement. It is inthe nature of many crimes andmisdemeanors that they can notbe Avell requited in kind; but ifthe requital in kind were pos-sible, then that, and not someother punishment, was the thingdemanded of the statute of Israel. In this respect vSemitic law was thesame in
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . com-pense; or, if that should fail, bythe law of avengement. It is inthe nature of many crimes andmisdemeanors that they can notbe Avell requited in kind; but ifthe requital in kind were pos-sible, then that, and not someother punishment, was the thingdemanded of the statute of Israel. In this respect vSemitic law was thesame in spirit, and virtually the same inletter, as that of other primitive and half-Universaiity of barbarous peoples. ThereraraTouTpTo! is ^ decp-seated instinct inpi^s. mankind in favor of the law and principle of requital. The firstimpulse of the uninstructed, unenlight-ened man is to rectifv offenses bv return- ing lo the offender a measure of conductlike his own. If he violates the law ofproperty, he shall restore and be fined inkind. If he does an act of violence againstthe person or life of his fellowman, thatdeed shall be requited with another likeitself. The principle broadly appearedin the Israelilish statutes under .suchphrases as a life for a life, an eye. GlkL VVriH WlNi\uWING by Paul Hardy, from a photograph. for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, andso on through the whole catalogue ofcrimes and misdemeanors. The Hebrew statute went on to pro-vide the measure and degree of thisretaliatory punishment for Lex talionis de-crime. Generally the lex Xuforr^^aTtalionis required an excess punishment over and above the meas-ure of the wrong. Theft must be made 302 GREAT RACES OF good by a restoration fourfold. In capi-tal crime the punishment must ceasewith the destruction of the criminalslife—that in the nature of things. Butif the crime involved some of the moreflagrant sins, such as blasphemy, the vis-itation of punitive vengeance might ex-tend to t
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