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1828 July 30
Blackstone

Suppose the matter of punishment the motive applied. – Yet in this case, for
For causing me and every body else to abstain from
taking your coat from from you that same coat of yours, the law giver, be
he who he may, can, by the instrumentality of the Judge his
abovementioned subordinate and agent – the Judge, find punishment enough enough of this necessary article without difficulty.

If without On the other hand, if to save himself
from
the necessity of employing so rough an instrument,
sympathy were to prompt him to employ reward alone
in preference, he would find himself labouring under no small considerable
without punishment, not inconsiderable, are the difficulties, which
difficulty difficulties. ere he could accomplish the object he would have to surmount.

1. On condition of my abstaining during this present day from taking from
you this same coat, he would have to order the Judge to cause
you to have a better at least as good a coat, if not a better,
a thing which the Judge would not find quite so easily done
as said.

2. But I am but one, out of twenty million more
or less: here there would have to come an order to the Judge or less of your fellow countrymen, to each of whom it might happen
to take a favour, by self or proxy so save you from the trouble of putting on
or twenty million such equally good or better coats. But your coat again after you had taken it off: for each of them there would be
need of an order for a coat the order to be given by the Judge: here then
comes the need of twenty million of equally good those same equally good coats to be provided by the Judge.

3. As to myself When I had got this equally good or better coat,
this if it satisfied me for the first day, would not, in so far as
depended upon me, keep the coat on your back for more days
than that same first day. For, the second day, the same motion
which produced to me the abovementioned as good or better
coat, would produce in me the desire – and that an adequate one – of obtaining another
coat by the same means: and so on every day of our joint lives. Here then would come a draught
upon the Judge for as many coats for my use as you and I
together may happen to have years days: say the days in
ten years: total number of coats which the Judge would have to provide for my use 3750 3650.

4. But By
this same number will have to be multiplied the above mentioned
residue of the 20 million of coats or substitution to coats:
No product is Total number of coats thus to be supplied by the Judge
7, 300,000,000. For This same number, adequate provision having been
made by the Judge, still your security as to the your keeping of you the
coat for your use would not be greater than if no such provision were
made: for among your
fellow countrymen there
would be not a few whom by each
of whom
the actual coat seen
on your back would be
preferred to the future
contingent coat how much
more beautiful soever, for which application will have to be made to the Judge.

For the adult population
of the male sex those same
coats might serve: for the non
adults of the female male sex
and for all of the female sex,
the reward might require
some modification provision made of some other sort of garment,: but
the settlement of the particulars may be left
to the conjunct hands of
imagination and task.


Identifier: | JB/031/004/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 31.

Date_1

1828-07-30

Marginal Summary Numbering

or 4 - or 8

Box

031

Main Headings

civil code

Folio number

004

Info in main headings field

blackstone

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c2 / d4 / e4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

b&m 1828

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

arthur moore; richard doane

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1828

Notes public

ID Number

9690

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