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6.
B.2. Ch. 1.

A valuable service might would be
rendered to society by an the individual who being
properly qualified for the task should examine
and report the effects produced by these different
modes of punishment, and should point out the
greater or less degree smaller evil consequences resulting
from contusions produced by the Ropes and blows with a Rope
or lacerations by whips &c. In Turkey the punishment is inflicted
by beating the soles of the feet are. Whether the consequences
are more or less severe I know not. It is
perhaps from some notion of modesty that the
Turks have not confined the application of
punishment to this part of the human Body.

If the suffering produced by a punishment of this class is
reduced is rendered but little more than momentary
it will not neither be sufficiently explary exemplary to
affect the spectators nor sufficiently efficacious to intimidate
the offenders; there will be little in the
chastisement but the ignominy attached to it –
and this would have but little effect upon that
class of delinquents upon whom such punishments
are generally inflicted – The quantity of suffering
ought therefore if possible to be regulated by
the Laws.

Of all these different modes of
punishment Whipping is the most frequently in
use. But in whipping not even the qualities
of the instrument(1) (1) See Note 1. are ascertained by written law:
while the quantity of force to be employed in its
application is altogether intrusted to the caprice
of the Executioner. He may make the punishment

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