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1828 July 30
Blackstone

To Blackstone, the obstacles to the exclusive employment of the
matter of reward do not appear to have presented themselves
in quite so strong a light: he looks, it should seem, to some
eventually future future contingent state of things, in which by means of some
provements in trade, those same obstacles may be removed surmounted
got the better of.

Reward being thus necessary, punishment insufficient, the result is – that to
the keeping my hands off from this coat of yours, punishment is indispensably necessary: punishment – that
is to say in my mind the eventual expectation of it. in my mind
Now then – this same expectation – how what is the course that
be taken for creating and keeping it alive? Answer, the following.

An appropriate law giver, we have supposed, is been as above, is in existence
in existence: this master with his under-workman – the Judge. In On his part breast
is the appropriate desire – an effective operating will – has place in his mind. This desire
Of the existence of this desire, by what the belief, must be produced together with the expectation of the eventual production
correspondent operation must have been produced in the want of my taking from you this garment of yours, has been produced –
in my mind: by what means can the belief and
expectation be produced? by what means have they can they have been produced?

In making answer to the question, mention must be made in the first place of the
signs capable of being having been employed for this purpose: in the next place of the uses that
may be capable of having been made of those same signs.

First as to the signs.⊞ ⊞ Of the signs capable
of producing the effect, three
sorts may be distinguished:
1. audible signs the sounds constitutive
of evil discourse
2. visible signs, character constitutive
of written discourse
3. Deportment – significant
and appropriate deportment. Originally these could be no other
than audible and evanescent ones that is to say words spoken, sounds, which, some suffer to be
in concurrence of continued association have received the faculty of calling into view so many more or less determinate ideas, or sets of ideas.
being he can. No otherwise can than by memory could
be retained such any ideas as were not in the making communication which
no other medicine that was employed(a) than than the thus evanescent
one was employed(a)
Note
(a) On the official establishment of the City of London, an officer a functionary
stiled the Remembrancer still retains a place. So also in
the great national Judicatory Westminster Hall called the Court of Exchequer.

By degrees to the above cause to be added the sort of visible and permanent signs –
words written: and written originally only one at a time: and but
latterly and within these few centuries by means of the invention process called printing
in any numbers at a time.

Identifier: | JB/031/005/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 31.
Date_1	1828-07-30	Marginal Summary Numbering	9-13, 12a
Box	031	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	005	Info in main headings field	blackstone
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / d5 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9691
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