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Capital Punishment examined.

once taken, to rest satisfied without carrying it immediately
into effect: for there is not a more universal
principle of human conduct than that
which leads a man a man to satisfy himself for a while with the
power without proceeding immediately, perhaps without
proceeding ever, to the act. It is that the same feeling which
so often turns the voluptuous man to a miser.

Now this is likely enough to be the condition of
those instead of death are may have been sentenced to another
punishment⊞ ⊞ Suffer rather than "die" is their motto. They defer the execution of their design
from hour to hour: sometimes for want of
means, sometimes for want of inclination, till at
last some incident happens that which to put puts in their heads
heads a train of thought which in the end diverts
them from their resolution. In the mental as well
as in the material part of the human frame
there is happily a strong disposition to accommodate
itself by degrees to the pressure of a f forced and
calamitous situations. When a great artery is
cut or otherwise disabled, the circumjacent smaller ones
will stretch and take upon themselves the whole duty of
applying conveying to the part affected the necessary
supplies. Loss of sight improves the faculty of feeling.
A left hand learns to perform the offices of the right
or even the feet of both. An inferior part of the
alimentary

Identifier: | JB/141/092/002 "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	092	Info in main headings field	capital punishment examined
Image	002	Titles	equability
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f10 / f11
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::propatria [britannia motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	48309
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