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3. That they be gentle; an improper
and unsignificant term, whilst his
observations upon the danger of excess in
punishment are very judicious.

4. That they should be proportional, but
he gives no rule for this proposition.

He requires besides this that they
should be certain, prompt & inevitable
but these circumstances depend upon the
forms of procedure in the application of
punishment, and not upon its qualities.

In his commentary upon Beccaria
Voltaire often recurs to the idea of rendering
\punishments profitable – "A dead man is
good for nothing."

One of The Heroes of Humanity, the good and
amiable Howard had continually in
view the amendment of delinquents.

Confining our attention to those who are
considered as the oracles in this branch of
science, we cannot but observe that from between
these scattered ideas, and vague conceptions
which have not yet received a name, there and a
is a great distace regular catalogue in which these qualities are
distinctly presented to us with names and definitions
there is a wide interval. By thus placing
them under one point of view another advantage
is gained – their true worth and comparative
importance is determined. Montesquieu was
dazzled by the merit worth of analogy as in a punishment
and has attributed to it wonderful effects which it
does not possess. – Esprit des Lois, XII. 4.

Identifier: | JB/141/031/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	031	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles	note by dumont
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f11 / f18 / f12
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	48248
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