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V. Exemplarity

A mode of punishment is exemplary
in proportion to its apparent, not to its
real magnitude. It is the apparent punishment
punishments that does all the service in the
way of example. A real punishment which
should be seem produce no visible effects might serve
to intimidate or reform the deter gi offender
subjected to it, but its use as an example to
the public would be lost.

The object of the legislator ought
therefore to be, so far as it may be safely practicable
to select such modes of punishment, as at
the expense of the least real shall produce
the greatest apparent suffering – and to
accompany each particular mode of punishment
with such solemnities as may best be best
calculated to further this object.

In this point of view, the auto-da-fés
would furnish most useful models for
acts of justice. What is a public Execution? –
It is a solemn tradge tragedy which the
legislator presents before an assembled
people a tragedy truly important, truly
pathetic, by the sad reality of its object catastrophe
and the grandeur of its object. The
preparation for it, the place of exhibition and
the attendant circumstances cannot be too
carefully selected as upon these the
principal effect depends. The tribunal,
the scaffold, the dresses of the Officers of Justice,
the religious service, the procession, every kind
of accompaniment, ought to bear a grave and

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	022	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	v exemplarity / vi frugality
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f6 / f6 / f7 / f5
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	[[watermarks::dusautoy & rump 1809 [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward collins
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	48239
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