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Indirect Legislation
Satisfying
the reputation of a man depends. With the
reasonableness or propriety of these habits of thinking
we have nothing here to do: it is sufficient
that they exist. An injury of this sort then it is
evident that no money can with any certainty
repair: for in such a case money will neither take away
from the reputation of him from whom it is
taken away, nor add to that of him to whom
it is given. Though the punishment were to be capital Even death itself would not
compleatly effect the purpose: the injured party
would remain on nearly on near the same footing of
inferiority as before. In short there is but one
class of punishments which would compleatly
answer the purpose: a sort of punishment which
would turn the tables upon the offender, and
through the inferiority on his side. Asking
pardon of the party injured, in a manner more or less public & with ceremonies more
or less humiliating: In the work above making seeing the history of such humiliation
render'd more or less public by the operations of the
press: upon occasion, especially in case of obstinacy,
undergoing receiving a like or greater injury insult at
the hand of the party injured or the common
executioner: banishment to such or such a distance
from any place at which the party injured
shall be present: by all th from operations like these, severally
or in conjunction, there is no injury in point of hon-
-our
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