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Punishment Distinguished & defined
way of placing punishment is obviously that of laying it upon the person himself who did the act. Whether in any and in what cases it may be of right use to lay it on any other person is a question that will meet us in another place.
Thence better adapted to general Use.
In virtue of these precautions the definition I imagine is such as men of all parties, as well philosophical and as political, may agree in. An Indian Savage and English Juryman, a partizan of the moral sense and an adherer to the principle of utility, he who refers every thing to the Interest of the Sovereign and he who regards immediately the interest of the community, may all equally subscribe to it.
Punishment used in 3 senses.
I must here give warning of an inacuracy I feel any self obliged to give into in the course of this work with my eyes open. I know no means of avoiding it without giving to the language throughout such an air of stiffness as would be intolerable. The word punishment may be observed by an attentive reader to be used in the course of the following pages in at east three distinguishable senses. In one which is that in which I have used it hitherto, it signifies the internal
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