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the rules above laid down have been most rigorously
has for its most distinguished practices its
clearness its simplicities and its precision. All
attempts at penal legislation that have hitherto
appeared, though leaving the object unaccomplished
and infinitely more complicated, more difficult
of comprehension and more vague.

It has been necessary into to inlist unto the
proven a great variety of punishments to adapt
them to each the several offences, and to contrive
new expedients for rendering them exemplary
and characteristic. That persons who will may be
ready to admitt as a general proposition, that
these two qualities are essential, will nottheless
be alarmedrevolted when we come to the application
of them. Punishments considered inthemselves
and as distinct as unconnected with offences crimes
naturally excite antipathy and even horror.
And the uproar more over that is to the obtained
from the feeling and imagination is so
and capricious that the same punishments
that that would excite the imagination for
man as too severe, would be blamed by another
as too lenient and inefficacious.

The object here is to remain as possible objective
— a system of punishment is not cruel severe merely
because it is variable. The multiplicity & variety
of punishments shows the indirectly and care
attention of the legislator. To provide no more
than one or two species of punishment shews
an utter ignorance of all principles and a savage
contempt of all proportions. Countries In proof of
this countries may be mentioned subject to the
most despotic government, and civilization
but very little advanced, when it may be said there
is but one species of punishment in them.
The more closely one examines the nature of crimes of
circumstances, the more strongly one shall be
impressed with the necessity of employing different
modes of punishment for their prevention

Identifier: | JB/047/136/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1803-02-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	136	Info in main headings field	prefat. self-convicting
Image	002	Titles
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	15004
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