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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


Identifier: | JB/119/061/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

16-23

Box

119

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

061

Info in main headings field

employ vi extraction

Image

001

Titles

considerations operating in restraint of excessive lenity

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d1 / d2 / / d4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

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

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

39572

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