Which means that no matter how long it takes, he who needs to be punished will be punished. God watches all, and the day of reckoning will come.
From the book "Retrospection" by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1912):
Pray the gods that their mills may be kept running until the superstition and chicane which govern our courts shall be ground out, when justice and judges shall be something more than mechanisms chained to the Juggernaut of form, when right shall precede precedent, when lawyers shall not be allowed to insult men and torture women on the witness stand, when competent and responsible judges shall do the work of ignorant and stupid jurymen, when accusers shall be required to act promptly and make good their accusations or drop it, when court routine shall be conducted more upon the principles of common-sense and common honesty, more work and less delay being required of judges who should dispose of their cases in one-fifth of the time now taken, when justice shall be considered before law and the spirit of the law before the letter of the law, when rich and poor shall be treated alike, and insanity, informality, or other like trivial pretense shall not shield a convicted criminal.
The world moves. We may be sure that a change will come, that our courts of law will not always be courts of charlatanry, and that administrators of the law will be something else than images cast in bronze set up for the embarrassment of the people.
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