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Indirect

Rewarding

§ Presenting an inducement in the shape of reward
rather than of punishment.
Or
Transforming punishment into reward.

Reward, when it can be employ'd
as where as a spring of action, has
two three very capital advantages over punishment. 1. it
is free of stands clear casts off all difficulties about evidence: 2. it is
clear from casts off all delays and uncertainties of procedure.
3. it stands clear of the all that odium which is
so apt to withstand the application of punishment,
to counter diminish the certainty of it and by that
means its efficacy as a spring of action, and to
raise up inconveniences that may that may serve to counterballance
act in counterballance to any good effects that might
be attained by it.

1
This is making service
precede reward, instead of
making punishment follow
upon delinquency.
2
In this way additional
services are procured without
additional expence.
3
The great advantage consists in
the placing the onus probendi
Every body is eager
to entitle himself to
reward: every body is
backward to submitt
to punishment

I have shewn elsewhere why it is that
for the most important purposes of legislation
reward can not be employ'd and why on of the few
instances in which it can be employ'd at all
there are still fewer in which it can be trusted
to alone without any help support from punishment. One
difficulty impediment, [though there are others,] to the
constant use of it, though there also others, lies consists in
the expence. But there are cases in which at
the same expence a man may administer either
reward or punishment. The same vessel urn , by a
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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	142	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	/ / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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