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insupportable + + torture miseries of such a torture of such a situation, by the — by the
lesser miseries sufferings of insanity.
according to the Rule our constant & as it should seem unimpeachable Rule

When we compare the mischief of the [political] disease
to the mischief of the remedy, what a signal want
of oeconomy does there appear in the adoption of the
latter? Murder of a Child by any other than the Mother stands upon a very different footing, as for instance by the Heir presumptive. There the terror to persons at large is almost the same as or in other murders when the of Avarice is raised to such a pitch no one may be safe from it's effects I am apt to imagine that the mischief of
the remedy in this case is purely gratuitous and stands
uncompensated by any abatement in the mischief of the
disease — and that the distant and uncertain confused prospect
of a the contingent penalty is a less lovable motive
than present and certain anguish from the wound to the parent material affection; and that at least ordinarily where
the latter fails in it's efficacy the former would fail also. But even
allowing that the execution of one Mother may prevent
the Man slaughter of several Infants; [how many or how few no one
can + + before a trial of the abolition of the punishment pretend to say] the Ballance seems still to be very
greatly against the Law — to form a clear judgment of it
we must agreable to method we have [established] constantly all along pursued upon the like occasions The officious hand of Legislation is for with every thing the least difficulty seems to call claim for it's burdens intervention assistance — like the Nurse who to punish The a Child for putting itself to the pain of a slight fall will inflict a double pain by whipping it.
consider it separately as resulting first 1st from the comparison
of the mischiefs misery to the immediate objects — 2dly to
the Society at large —

As to the mischief to the immediate objects without
pretending to calculate what is not subject to calculation
I must confess profess I cannot conceive of the suffering,
of I may say, scarcely any number of infants to a certain for an uncertain number put together as equalling to those of one Mother
That of each infant is but as a cypher; and, what
extremely deserves our attention, is not greater nay in
fact nothing near equal to what he must infallibly suffer by
a natural death either at his then present or any
future period of life: as to the pleasures which he might

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Identifier: | JB/096/217/003 "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	003	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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