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On Mercy,New Jesse Lee This Fully Revised Edition TakesIs Mercy More Important Than Justice? Since Antiquity, Mercy Has Been Regarded As A Virtue. The Power Of Monarchs Was Legitimated By Their Acts Of Clemency, Their Mercy Demonstrating Their Divine Nature. Yet By The End Of The Eighteenth Century, Mercy Had Become An Injustice Committed Against Society . . . A Manifest Vice. Mercy Was Exiled From Political Life. How Did This Happen? In This Book, Malcolm Bull Analyses And Challenges The Enlightenments