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Indirect Legislation

§ 3 Power

won't strike: cut them off and he won't steal: shut
him up in a dungeon and he won't go upon the
highway: cut his tongue out and deal with him
as father or Origen, and if the business be done
thoroughly
maids and matrons be may go
in peace for him: cut his tongue out, and he will
speak no treasons: keep him from pen and ink
and he will write no heresies [: stop his ears up
against every religious tale but one and perhaps
he may believe it]. clear the the country of men
as Charles 9th did, or even as Ferdinand or Lewis
14, or Archbishop of Salzburg did, and you
clear it of offenders.

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Only with regard
to criminals

But these processes effectual as they are, are
rather of the expensive cast: and if put in practise
without distinction upon all mankind, or upon
numerous bodies of mankind, the advantage would be
scarcely worth the purchase. There are only one
class of people upon whom in any case they can it can
be put in practise with advantage: I mean
convicted criminals: in the case where the pam
quantity of suffering misery which it would be necessary
to expend for this purpose exceeds not the
quantity requisite to be expended for the other
purposes of punishment. Under this restriction there
and
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Identifier: | JB/087/089/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	089	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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