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C. Punishment distinguished & defined

profit of that party (by affording him the means of pleasure)
money or service so applied are said to be bestowed in
the way of Compensation satisfaction: in other words Compensation is
amends or reparation
reparation said to be made or rendered to the party who before had suffered.
An Act producing such effect and done with a direct
intention of producing it, may be stiled an Act of Compensation.

Now in order to obtain the means of making Compensation
it is necessary that a burthen should be laid
somewhere. The laying on this burthen will produce
Pain. But this Pain being obliquely only and not directly
intentional is not punishment. An Act of Compensation
Not but that the
The effect of an act of compensation
is the same, as
far as it goes, as that of
an act of punishment
therefore is not, as such, an act of punishment.

In the same way may an Act of punishment de distinguished
from an Act of Self-preservation or an Act
of Self-defence; the pain in both cases being the same. An

Note.

all mankind) in the satisfaction of strengthening himself in
such habits as give him a title to such goodwill: in relieving
any person from such a pain as produces in himself a pain of sympathy.
After this explanation, the position will, I think, be allowed.



Identifier: | JB/159/032/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

17-29

Box

159

Main Headings

punishment

Folio number

032

Info in main headings field

punishment distinguished & defined

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

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

53855

Box Contents

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