When a bad deed has been done, it affords satisfaction not only to the sufferer, who for the most part feels the desire of revenge, but also to the perfectly indifferent spectator, to see that he who caused another pain suffers himself a like measure of pain; and this quite independently of the end which we have shown the state has in view in punishment, and which is the foundation of penal law.
Estatuak zigorrean duen aipaturiko helburutik guztiz independente, zeinak oinarritzen baitu zigor-zuzenbidea, gogobetetasuna ematen dio, egitate gaizto bat gertatu denean, ez irainduari bakarrik, gehienetan mendeku-irrikaz animaturik dagoenari baizik edozein begiratzaile guztiz interesgaberi, beste bati mina eragin dionak berak ere minaren neurri bera sofritzen duela bere aldetik ikusteak.