The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor-House

'A plea for humanity' from the author of Heaven Our Home (also in this collection): an indictment of the gallows, the prison, and the poor-house as institutions organized on vengeance rather than restoration. Quinby's case against capital punishment runs directly out of his theology — a God who reforms rather than damns is a poor patron for a state that hangs — and the book is a prime document of Universalism's social-reform conscience before the social gospel had a name.

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