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entertain ing the interval between Death the fatal Stroke for the years of enjoyment: in sentiment of the however which may be supposed to be in good measure absorbed & smothered in their corporal sensation pain which he
loses by it as well as the misery he actually undergoes
which he is apt to consider as clear & gratuitous, the
portion pain which he according to the common course of nature
must have accompanied his dissolution, at what so
ever future period it should have happened, not being
as may be supposed under such circumstances attended to and taken into the
account — But this source of misery evidently does has plainly no
not exist existence in the case before us.
It is a pretty obvious objection, tho' one easily answer'd the answer seems equally so

It may here be objected, that by this analysis I
explain away all the mischief misery attending the Crime, of Murder in general
2d Objection that secrecy may — the guilt. and consequently according to any principles as for all the guilt of it; for since
the misery of the immediate object of the Crime is there made
out to be nothing or next to nothing; the misery also
of those related the secondary objects to the primary object should therefore
be nothing inconsiderable as consisting in the mere prospect
of a misery which itself made is theirs out by this argument
to be inconsiderable. That the terror of an inconsiderable evil can be but small.

But if the objection wants nothing of being is obvious, the answer is no less so. wants nothing of being satisfactory as are
The calm attention, the patient scrutiny, which can enable
enable men to whom speculation is familiar to survey
an object abstracted from the surrounding ones that confound
the observation to shut out all false lights that by their
glare dazzle and distract the attention imagination is the lot
only of a few, and of those few only in the calm tranquil
shewing of the Closet. those who ate any time are
capable of such disquisitions, compared with the


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Identifier: | JB/096/220/003
"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

220

Info in main headings field

homicide of infants

Image

003

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c20

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

31224

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