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Considerations operating in restraint of
excessive
the regard due to health and
life as above-mentioned no scruple need not be entertained of
extracting from a man as much labour
as can be extracted from him as he can be made to yield, whether by
means of reward or by fear of punishment not inordinately
severe.
For The condition of a person thus the class of persons in
question kept in a state of punishment ought not
to be better preferable in any respect to in appearance at least, in so material a particular, to that
of honest individuals at large: if it were to
render it so would be to counteract the very
end design of the institution: admittance into
it would be not a punishment but a
reward: not a means of deterring men
from but of inviting men to delinquency.
But it is well known that the utmost quantity
of labour that can be extracted fr by compulsion
can never be made to equal that
which men voluntarily submitt themselves to take upon them
in a state of liberty. They will even work
themselves undertake such sorts of work and
such
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