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how justice should be administered

 3	    Courts and juries judge and sentence mortals in order
  	to restrain crime, to prevent deeds of violence or to punish
  	them. To say that these tribunals have no	                      Mental
 6	jurisdiction over the carnal or mortal mind,                           crimes 
  	would be to contradict precedent and to admit that the
  	power of human law is restricted to matter, while mortal
 9	mind, evil, which is the real outlaw, defies justice and is
  	recommended to mercy. Can matter commit a crime? 
  	Can matter be punished? Can you separate the men-
12	tality from the body over which courts hold jurisdiction? 
  	Mortal mind, not matter, is the criminal in every case;
  	and human law rightly estimates crime, and courts rea-
15	sonably pass sentence, according to the motive.