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Of Punishments belonging to the Moral Sanctions.

such a refusal, that no law could make secure provision
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against hose miseries in every case, without [such a subversion
of all liberty and all property as would produce much
greater miseries. Your giving me a shilling to buy me
food or taking me twenty miles to a physician may on a
critical occasion save me from an excruciating disease:
but no law without leaving it to the determination of the
person in want can with sufficient certainty describe
such occasions; nor can any law without depriving You
of all Liberty and all Property oblige you to give money
to, or take a journey for, every man who shall determine
himself to be in want of such assistance.

Those arising from
positive, are limited reduced
by law to next to
nothing — the positive
ill-office of
positive ill being
reducible into
negative

Howsoever this be with regard to negative ill-offices,
positive ill-offices not only may be limited but in most
cases may be and commonly are forbidden. In no settled
state of government is private displeasure permitted
to rise so high as to vent itself indiscriminately in any
of those direct ways of inflicting pain which the political magistrate

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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	002	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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