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Another main quality on which the effect of a punishment depends
is its celerity. No man ever thrusts his hand into the fire. Why? because
the suffering follows instantaneously upon the act.

There are certain diseases which follow almost as certainly the acts calculated
to produce them, as the pain of burning from thrusting the hand into the fire. Yet
these acts are done committed. Why? Because the penal consequence is distant.

Delay gives room for obstacles to intervene. Apparent diminution of
certainty therefore follows necessarily from abatement of celerity.

And in the interval a man takes the chance of Death, which removes
him from the penal visitation.

Pity in the Magistrate too has more time to operate to prevent or mitigate the punishment. And Pity in the people destroys a proportion of its effect.

The Religious sanction is eminently deficient in the article of celerity.

Locke is very free in his avowal of does not hesitate to allow the inefficacy of the Religious Sanction.
And he partly gives the reasons of it. Men do not, in fact, give heed to it,
he says, so as to determine their conduct by it: and it is the their nature of them
not to do so, as appears from these reasons. And yet they ought, he says, and
it their not doing so is folly in them not. For did they but duly reflect they would find that in
every instance of transgression the punishment, after all abatements must be
greater, and that in any given proportion than the profit of the crime. For the
stores of divine Justice being supposed infinite, God can, and it is to be
supposed, will, take inflict as much in the articles amount of intensity and duration as shall
suffice to make up the deficiency whatsoever it may be in the other elements of its
momentum.

He does not consider that it is the apparent value of a future pain, and
not the real value, that constitutes the momentum of it in the mind, and that
while the supposed additional mass of pain, by default of apparency, does not no addition in quantity can make up for the diminution
produce an effect proportionable, instead of producing an encrease in the total which uncertainty – distance & delay produce. It is the belief, and not
mass of happiness, it would operate pro tanto in diminution of it. the reality of punishment that operates beneficially, and the strength of
the political sanction consists in this – that the constant presence of
the reality induces the belief and makes that belief of virtue influential.
'Tis

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	206	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f64
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
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