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28 Jan 1809 Peines 6

9. Paley 12 Punishment wd be inflicted when neither deserved nor necessary The principle of sympathy & antipathy which supposes that punishment is inflated for the gratification of vengeance has here been substituted employ'd instead of the principle of utility - under which pain in this or in any other shape is not inflicted except from its necessity "or some would undergo that this punishment,
"when it was neither deserved nor necessary."

Under this word deserved lurks an error, which
for by being so generally extensively embraced, and thence with with so
much propriety referable to the denomination of a vulgar
error, is not the less, but the more, mischievous. It
will be seen reproduced in the next page, by the word
merit applied to the same punishment: subject: "merit the punishment
of death."

It has for its root the principle of sympathy and
antipathy, substituted to as placed in a book with the
principle of utility: the principle of sympathy and
antipathy which, applied to a case in which as here,
the emotion of ill will is excited by the and pointed towards <add>directed against</add> an individual
or class of persons by a particular act imputed to
him or them, assumes the more limited appellation
of the principle of vengeance.

According Under to the principle of utility, not an atom
of pain or evil in any shape is would be inflicted on any sentient sensitive being
but under the notion supposition and persuasion of its necessity: viz.
the necessity of such infliction to the preserving of the same
individual or some other individual or individuals from
some greater evil.

Under the principle of antipathy or vengeance,
pain to any amount may with propriety be inflicted on
any individual on no other ground for no other cause than the ill-will exerted
in the breast of another individual by the contemplation of
it.

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Date_1	1809-01-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	12
Box	107	Main Headings	law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)
Folio number	206	Info in main headings field	peines
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	pr1	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	35197
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