Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

Career
Hocking began teaching as an instructor in comparative religion at Andover Theological Seminary. Hocking's criterion was corroborated in the mid-20th century by Richard Feynman a physicist who won the Nobel Prize.

He said that metaphysics has to make inductions from experience: "that which does not work is not true. William Ernest Hocking (August 10 1873 Cleveland Ohio – June 12 1966 Madison New Hampshire) was an American idealist philosopher at Harvard University. In 1958 he served as president of the Metaphysical Society of America.