12. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him. He had no mercy, but on the contrary he crushed down all who appealed to him. Loath to smite him with his own weapon, stern justice can do no otherwise; she lifts her scales and sees that this, too, must be in the sentence. Neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children. We are staggered to find the children included in the father’s sentence, and yet as a mater of fact children do suffer for their father’s sins, and as long as the affairs of this life are ordered as they are, it must be so. So involved are the interests of the race that it is quite impossible in all respects to view the father and the child apart.
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