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He states moreover that punishment should
should be prompt, certain and inevitable. But
this belongs to procedure, the application of punishment,
and not to its qualities.

In his commentary on Beccaria Voltaire
rep repeatedly inculcates the propriety of rendering making
pursue punishments profits convertible subservient to profit.
"A man hanged" (says he) "is worth nothing".

One of the apostles of humanity the good &
virtuous Howard had constantly in view the
reformation of offenders.

In thus confining ourselves to those who are generally
considered as the oracles regarded as oracular in this branch of sciences
it may be observed that from such a between point of
departure from that they had attained – between them scattered and loose ideas
for which scanty as they are no proportion apt denomin nomenclature
had been found – the interval is immensely
wide there is no small interval
to the forming a regular & exhaustive catalogue in which
the several qualities desirable in a lot of punishment are presented distinctly
to the mind amon under proper denominations
and definitions accompanied with the requisite
definitions. By placing bringing them too simultaneously
before they they the to the under the eye, ar further
advantage is obtained viz. that of determining
their relative importance, and comparative
value. For want of such an help Montesquieu
has greatly overrated the merit of char analogy.
He ascribes to it the most marvellous effects, to
which unquestionably it has not claim title.
Esprit des Lois XII. 4.

This appears to me to be a sufficient answer if the
indeed it required any, to the objections that
have been made against the analytic method
purued pursued by Mr Bentham. What I
allual allude to are the divisions, the tables, the

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	045	Info in main headings field	book ii of corporal punishment chap. 1 simple afflictive punishments
Image	004	Titles	note
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Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	[[watermarks::dusautoy & rump 1809 [britannia with shield emblem]]]
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