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Laborious Punishment examined.

Upon examining laborious punishment, we shall
find it to possess the properties to be wished for in
a mode of punishment, in an greater degree perfection, upon
the whole, than any other single one punishment.

1. It is convertible to profit. It is Labour is
in fact the very source of profit. Not that
after all its is power in this way is so extensive this as that
of pecuniary punishment. For from the punishment
of one man, in this way, all the profit that is
to be reaped is that which is producible by the labour
of one man; a limited and never very ample
quantity. On the other hand, from the punishment
of a man in the pecuniary way, it may happen
that a profit shall be reaped equal to the value
of the labour of many hundred men. The difference
however in favour of this punishment is that
money is a casual fund; labour is a certain one one that cannot fail.
And in short Indeed upon the whole, though pecuniary be punishment be in particular instances capable
of being more profitable in particular instances, yet considering how much
large a proportion of menmankind, especially of those
most obnoxious liable to commit the most frequent and
troublesome kinds of crimes, have no other other possession⊞ ⊞ worth estimating than
their labour, laborious punishment⊞ ⊞ if managed as it might and ought to be, may perhaps may perhaps be deemed
the most profitable upon the whole.

Identifier: | JB/141/087/001 "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	087	Info in main headings field	laborious punishment examined
Image	001	Titles	convertibility to profit / frugality
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::propatria [britannia emblem]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	48304
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