JB/087/147/003

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Indirect

Rewarding

On what it depends
whether the
force of reward
thus applied
will be sufficient

It has just been observed that the in the
application of this principle the reward may be
made to act with a force proportioned to the necessity
which a man is under of the thing in
which the reward consists: this force will in many
cases be considerable; and perfectly sufficient for
the purpose. It has indeed by been said observed [on the
other hand] in on another place occasion that the effect of
punishment reward is weak in comparison to that
of punishment: so weak as that in certain many cases it
can could not with safety be trusted to alone. Notwithstanding
this there are cases enough in which the
necessity a man is under of obtaining it is so
great, that the force with which it is capable
of being made to act in the capacity of an inducement
is sufficient for the purpose. This is
evident enough in several of the examples above
cited: I will mention that of the stamp-duties as
being the first. The case is it is impossible to
draw in precise terms any universal line between
the negative idea of not doing service and the positive
idea of doing disservice: between the negative idea
of not forbearing to reward, and the positive idea of
applying punishment. Note
Upon this distinction
turns the distinction between
influence and prerogative.
If the good in question is
expected, and the expectation is so strong as that the
event

Identifier: | JB/087/147/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	147	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	[[page_numbering::f2[1] / f[2]2 / f23 / f24]]
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27672
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