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B.2. Ch.1

Book II.
Of Corporal Punishments
Chap. 1
Simple Afflictive(1) Punishments

A punishment is simply afflictive
when the object aimed at is to produce immediate immediate
temporary suffering and is so called to distinguish
it from other classes of corporal punishments in
which the suffering produced is designed to be more
or less permanent. – Simple afflictive punishments
are distinguished from one another by three principal
circumstances – the part affected, the nature of the instrument of
punishment and the manner of its application.

To enumerate all the varieties of
punishment which might be produced by the
combination of these different circumstances would
be an useless as well as an endless task. To enumerate
the several parts of a mans body in which he is liable to be
made to suffer would be to give a complete body of anatomy.
To enumerate the several instruments by the application
of which he might be made to suffer would be to give a
complete body of Natural History. To attempt to
enumerate the different manners in which those instruments
may be applied to such a purpose, would be to attempt
to exhaust the inexhaustible variety of motions and
situations.

Note

(1) I am sensible how imperfectly the word afflictive
is calculated to express the particular kind of punishment
I have here employed it to express in contradistinction to
all others: but I could find no other word in the language
that would do it better. – It may be some reason
for employing it thus, that in French it is employed in a
sense nearly if not altogether confined:* * Causes Celebres Ch. IV p299. Ed Amsterd. 1764. and the pains it is
the nature of the punishments in question to produce Cicero
expresses by a word of the same root; – Adflictatio (says that
orator in his Tusculan Disputations, when he is defining and
distinguishing the several sorts of pain) "est ægritudo cum
vexatione corporis."+ + Lib. 4. c. 8.

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