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Of Punishments belonging to the Moral Sanction

Language I have ventured to make use of,) the experiment I
have made of the causal evils of this sanction adds force
to the characteristic evils of this sanction.

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The costs arising
even from negative
ill-offices are
unlimited.

We have already intimated the distinction between
positive and negative ill-offices; to the former, and even in
a few instances to the latter, it is the duty, and a great
part of the business, of the political magistrate to set
limits. These limits however may come accidentally
to be transgressed; as there are scarce any laws that can
be made but what may come accidentally to be
disobey'd. On this account, the evils that may result from
this source remain still undeterminate and unlimited.
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But were the laws that might be made in this behalf
ever so certain in their operation, these evils would still
remain indeterminate and unlimited, notwithstanding.
For so uncertain and unforeseeable may lie the connection
between the refusal of a good office, and the miseries which
in particular circumstances may be the consequences of such

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	7
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	098	Info in main headings field	of punishments belonging to the moral sanction
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	folio now in 2 pieces	ID Number	48315
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