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emotion indeed is felt, but it is one of a very
different kind it is pity alone, never Terror.

An emotion which in the degree of in which it is felt where
upon an incident of the former kind above what it
is upon one of the latter is [founded generated] + + as far as it is not unless it be upon the principle above alluded confessed by
upon mere outward appearances, rather than upon the real feeling of the sufferer [otherwise of the spectator and not justifiable upon
a mere minute accurate examination — if our pity is founded proportional
to upon the sufferings of its the object it ought to
be much greater for a man than for an Infant
The sufferings Corporal pain of a man an adult aggravated by the sense
of Death the approaching consequence, and often protracted
by resistance, superior solidity of frame & often by resistance are always great, often inconceivable
those of a new born Infant may and ordinarily do begin and end in the
same moment.

Who can paint the agonies of an unhappy Mother
at the approach of the punishment of death for a
crime which its own most severe punishment aggravated
by remorse and by returning or rather subsisting tenderness? for the
putting an end to the scarce existing <add>conscious existence </add> life of the Infant is no far from being a proof
of the absence of tenderness towards it is only a proof
of the preferring the pain misery of an extraneous however nearly connected object scarce existing
which ceases for ever as soon as it is felt, to
a misery pain of her own unlimited in her eyes in it's duration
not top be described in it's intensity and the greater
in proportion to the prior merit and good character
of the sufferer. The conflict Torment of so many complicated
miseries is often too mighty for the feeble intellect to
endure; and we often see the object relieved from the

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Identifier: | JB/096/217/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	217	Info in main headings field	childmurder homicide of infants
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / / / c17
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31221
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