The severe penalty of death, where a spy is captured, is not because there is anything dishonorable in the fact of the person being a spy, as only men of peculiar gifts for such service, men of courage and cool judgment and undoubted patriotism, are selected.
Dodge discusses the rationale behind the severe penalties for spies during wartime, emphasizing the qualities required for such roles.
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