THE AMERICAN BIBLICAL REPOSITORY, DEVOTED ΤΟ BIBLICAL AND GENERAL LITERATURE, THEOLOGICAL DISCUSSION, THE HISTORY OF THEOLOGICAL OPINIONS, ETC. CONDUCTED BY JOHN HOLMES AGNEW. Second Series. VOL. X. NOS. XIX., XX.—WHOLE NOS. LI., LII. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETOR BY E. LITTELL, OFFICE OF THE REPOSITORY AND OF THE ECLECTIC MUSEUM OF FOREIGN LITERATURE, NO. 236 BROADWAY. BOSTON: SAXTON AND PIERCE, 133 WASHINGTON-STREET. LONDON: WILEY AND PUTNAM, 35 PATERNOSTER ROW. 1843. ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern JOHN F TROW, PRINTER CONTENTS OF VOL. X. NO. XIX. ART. I. PUNISHMENT, ITS NATURE AND DESIGN, . . ART. II. THE MOSAIC ACCOUNT OF THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE, CONFIRMED BY THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES. By Samuel Forry, M. D., New-York. ART. III. THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES, AS EXHIBITED IN THE GRECIAN POETRY; considered with special reference to the attribute of Justice, and the strong impression left by the Primitive belief, upon the ancient mind. By Tayler Lewis, Esq., Prof. of Greek in the University of N. Y. ART. IV. ATONEMENT. By Rev. A. Wheelock, Pastor of the Sixteenth-st. Baptist Church, NewYork City. ART. V. REVIEW OF GLIDDON'S Page 1 213 . 231 233 234 . 4. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan 234 5. Essays on the Church of God 235 6. Chalmers' Lectures onRomans 236 7. Kitto's Cyclopædia 8. Felton's Greek Reader 236 . 236 9. Taylor's Apostolic Baptism, . 237 10. Exposition of the Gospels . 238 11. The New Purchase . 238 12. Barnes's Apostolic Church . 238 110 13. Maurice's Kingdom of Christ. 239 14. Peck's Scripture Doctrine of Perfection 15. Schmucker's Psychology 16. Ward's Simple Cobler 17. Neander's Christian Church 242 18. Cotton's Keyes of the Kingdom 242 19. Torrey's Remains of Dr. Marsh 243 20. Church Psalmist 21. Dobbin's Dominici Diodati 22. Additional Notices X. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. 243 . 244 245 NO. XX. ART. 1. REVIEW OF DEMOCRACY IN ART. VI. RATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 13. Baxter's Saints' Rest . 496 14. Duncan's Cottage Fireside . 496 418 15. Chalmers's Lectures on Romans497 16. Smyth's Ecclesiastical Cate chism • 497 17. Church's Antioch 497 9. Wilson's Bible Majesty 10. Thompson's Day's Algebra 35% 11. Brande's Encyclopædia-Alison's History ITS NATURE, ENDS AND VALIDITY. 389 12. Grace Kennedy's Jessy Allan ART. VIII. ENGLISH PHONOLOGY. 21. Cecil's Remains ART. XII. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 499 THE AMERICAN BIBLICAL REPOSITORY. JULY, 1843. SECOND SERIES, NO. XIX. WHOLE NO. LI. ARTICLE I. PUNISHMENT, ITS NATURE AND DESIGN. INTRODUCTORY NOTE. THE subsequent article, from one who is familiar with the origin, history and operation of law, will commend itself to the thoughtful and philanthropic portion of the community. In our estimation, exhibiting as it does our own views, it is worth its weight in gold. We hope every reader of the Repository will be deeply imbued with its principles, and we commend it to the attention of editors of weekly papers for extracts, in order that through their more extended influence, the public mind may be called to consider this all-important subject. What is to become of us as a people; what are to be the consequences to our children, if the perpetrator of crime shall so awaken the sympathies of mankind, that in the morbid tenderness of their feelings for him, they shall forget altogether how much the general weal of society depends on the prompt infliction of proper penalties on the violators of wholesome law? ED. THE most important concern of the State, is its Criminal Jurisprudence. Peace and order, the security of person and property, life and its incidents, in great measure, depend upon it. We sleep in safety through its guardianship; we go abroad without peril through its protection; multitudes feel no other |