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PUNISHMENT Instances of it's being explained away

Defined+ +Punishment is whenever a man is made by design to suffer something Pain no evil on account of something done. [if by the party suffering, it may be stiled autolytic orthotic: if by some other, vicarious. N.B. Distinguish it from a Burthen: both agreeing in this, that they are injured for the production of greater good. Warburton's Alliance p. 304
York. Warburton.
If the Sensation itself varied were made to vary with the names
which these ingenious men learned persons find it convenient
to give it, their [labours] speculations would be as laudable
as they are ingenious: but the misfortune is,
that when upon being transported or about cast out into exile
to be hanged, (I don't know in which manner
the Atheist is to be got rid of, since the Bishop
hath not told us) the Atheist evil reasoner in religion, is
told informed that it is not Punishment, but only Restraint,
or when upon being plunged at once
out of a state of affluence into a state of famine Penury, a state of want the child of
the unfortunate reasoner in politics, is told
that it's no is not punishment, because "it does not
affect a right strictly so called", or when upon
having his corn taken out his warehouse,
with the value price of the husks to pay him, the
Husbandman is told that it is not done, as it
used to be by purveyance, but by entering,
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or when a man under the rack is told
that it's pain enough indeed, but that pain's no evil,
these several persons will be apt somehow or other to continue in
spite of all these fine speeches to continue as far
from being the less unhappy for it as more wise. they are from being the wiser Nothing can be more vain than speculations concerning Rights & Duties, which have wherein is made no reference to Happiness & Unhappiness. What signifies who has not his right, if nobody be the less happy? What signifies who has his right, if nobody be the more so?

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