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Punishments distinguished and defined.
Punishment Restraint Warburton. Importance of the above distinctions
"Such </add> of precese moral</add> words", says Bishop Warburton,
speaking of punishment and restraint, "one would
"think it was not very easy to comprehend." Allsance B.III. Ch. 3. p.303 edit With
to that acute and able reasoner to whose instructions
of a different opinion.
To be the I find myself , this I do not take I cannot altogether of this opinion
For my own part I know that with
the to distingwish I have<add></add>felt myself
danger of confounding them wery
This I do not attrubute solely to my own weakness,
and that for this reason amongst them, reasons,that the his Lordship
himself appears to the not to have stated the
question very so churly, as could have been wishid.
If punishment and restraint
were "speeres of any thing of which punishment
also is a speeres, I will not say that was in
this case it would not be easy to confound them:
but however it might be not very difficult
perhaps, upon occasion to >distinguish them. The
would be first to refer them to this
nearest common , and then to assign their
difference. But this unfortunately is not the
case. Punishment in the sense of it is pain:
pain is a sensation: a sensation is of the class
of real entities. Punishment in another sense of
it is an act: an act is again in the number
of real entities. But restraint stands not in any sense in whooh it is ever used
in either of these classes is nor in any class of real entities. In neither of these two senses