Read the following paragraph and answer the Question given below.

Protection of society and stamping out criminal proclivity must be the object of Law, which must be achieved by imposing appropriate sentence. Therefore, law as a cornerstone of the edifice of “order” should meet the challenges confronting the society. In operating the sentencing system law should adopt the corrective machinery or the deterrence based on factual matrix. By deft modulation sentencing process be stern where it should be and tempered with mercy where it warrants to he. The facts and given circumstances in each case, the nature of crime, the manner in which it was planned and committed. the motive for the commission of crime, the conduct of the accused. the nature of weapons used and all other attending circumstances are relevant facts which would enter into the area of consideration.

What is the object of law?