JB/087/194/001

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Indirect Legislation

Conclusion

Conclusion
Legislation
choice of evils

Forget not that human penal policy is but a choice of
evils: be content with choosing the least: and
do not in your zeal to thr exclude the less, give
admittance to the greater. [Consider that] simple
death is almost always either unnecessary or unavailing:
Impropriety of
simple death
unnecessary so long to against those whom pain will frighten
or confinement will restrain: unavailing against
those who fly to it as a refuge from despair.
The policy of the legislator who punishes every
thing with death is the policy of a the woman
who crushes a spider because she does not like
to look at it. The policy humanity of him who resolves can
on no occasion can bear endure to make it more terrible than it is
made by nature is the policy humanity virtue of the surgeon
who will not bear to amputate a limb.

Once more then distinguish between crimes:
and as well by the proportions established between
delinquency and punishment as by all every other means
strive to change all mischief into that for which money
is a cure. The attainment accomplishment of this point is the
ne

Identifier: | JB/087/194/001 "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	194	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27719
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