ABSTRACT

T. H. Green begins his discussion of punishment by insisting that there must be no attempt to relate the punishment of crime to the moral guilt of the criminal. At one point in the treatment of punishment it would seem as though Green could not altogether evade the complications we have noticed. By way of admitting that all crime involves some degree of moral guilt—the difficulty being to estimate the degree of it—he cites the case of the 'disinterested rebel'. In the attitude of Green to education we find the same kind of individualism. He himself participated effectively in the educational reforms which were gathering momentum in his day. He was especially anxious that the advantages of education should be within the reach of all classes. The reluctance of Green to admit the need for some discrimination of this kind is very evident in his discussion of the right of the state over the individual in war.