Sep 23, 2010
"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
Chapter 4 -- The Lunatic and the Law:
"The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus it may or may not be right to kill a murderer; but it can only conceivably be right to kill a...