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Of Punishments

With regard to the particular mode of punishments which in the
course of this work I have found myself obliged
to propose, there is one thing I would wish the
reader all along to bear in mind; view that for most of
I have very little predilection. In this kind of
hierarchy the process authority of reason is extremely
limited. All I can do is to first principles
and draw outlines; the rest must be left
to the capricious and unsteady suffrages of excitement
and imagination.

In
So capricious and so unsteady
are these suffrages,
that the same
punishment which in a
given case or person
has not been able to bear
the mention of without
horror another person
will reprobate as
being too slight to be
of any service.

The case is therefore, that Within the bounds
marked out by outlines above mentioned there is jeopardy
making neither as right nor as wrong in the
case : One man's judgement is as good as another's :
and the legislation can have no other compass
to steer by than the local
affections and prejudices of the people. Viewing
the matter in the above light I have not
the faintest expectation that there would be written
the comforts of human nature or single reader
who would approve of all the punishments here
proposed without exception. There is perhaps
scarce a reader any one perhaps in whom some
while as others may not excite a strong measure very intense degree of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	143	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	022	Info in main headings field	of punishments
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	48655
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