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S. 2. Sect. II. Simple affliction punishments examined
The examination of value of a particular species of punishment
is determined is performed by conforming it successively with
all the usual qualities above mentioned above as
being desirable in a lot of punishment, in order to
ascertain in what degree it or is
deficient in respect of those several qualities,
& whether those whom which it an
of than those is respect
of which it is deficient, that is to say, so as
to under it upon the whole best calculated to
attain the desired object aimed at.
It will be remembered that the several
properties desirable in a lot of punishment
are - variability - equability - commensurability
to other punishments - characteristicalness -
exemplarity - frugality - subserviency to information -
efficiency with respect to disabatement - subserviency
to confirmation - popularity - -
that particular best though it be found that this or that species of
punishment is deficient in respect of one or
more of their qualities, that of this is not of itself would
not form a sufficient reason for rejecting it.
they are not all of them of equal importance,
and moreover one species of punishment will
never be found to unite the whole of them.
1. Certainty. In print of certainty, they are the punishment in question is free
to our from objection: organical sibility which with its source, what
which of of punishments is most is
is by every human being: but of were susceptibility
to suffering the only circumstance
taken with the amount, consideration they would be in the
highest degree unequal and : efficiency of : as
if for example they even applied without comprehending
on account of
both the same for vocation to applied to both sexes and all ages for the
to the robust young man & the decrepit feeble old one:
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