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Of Punishments belonging to the Moral Sanction.

This, cannot but subsist must obtain in a greater or less degree upon every instance
of detected delinquency, unless in those callous and
brutish natures, if any such there be, in whom all sense
of disgrace, and all foresight of the consequence, is utterly
extinguished. The others above spoken of may be stiled the
casual evils.

The casual evils
depend upon 1.st The
Intensity; 2.ly The
Extent; 3.ly The Duration
of the Ill-will.

These casual evils (as we have already intimated)
owing to their extreme uncertainty, admit not of any determinate
variations in point of quality; in point of quantity
however, they do admit of some distinctions resulting
from the immediate source from whence they flow. This
source (as we have already intimated) is the ill will of
the community; that is to consider it more minutely of
such members of it as the delinquent may have to do with.
In proportion then, ceteris paribus, to the total mass, if one
may so say, of this that ill will, will be the total amount and
value of these evils. Now the magnitude of this total
mass of ill will, will depend (it is manifest) upon two circumstances

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	4
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	096	Info in main headings field	of the punishments belonging to the moral sanction
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6
Penner		Watermarks	myears
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48313
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