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Punishment analysed into its various possible Modes.
has a mind to do. The punishment in both these cases may be
stiled restrictive punishment.
Constraint may also affect him in two ways. 1. In
his passive powers, by causing him to suffer what he has a mind
not to suffer; in this case the punishment may be stiled passive
punishment. 2. In his active powers, by causing him
to do what he has a mind not to do: in this case it may be
stiled
Note.
it that any attempts were made to accommodate it to philosophical
disquisitions: and for the purposes of common life there can seldom
be occasion to make any distinction between two states so intimately
connected as that of suffering pleasurably and enjoying. As
to painful sensations they come upon us but too fast of their own accord;
but pleasurable ones can scarce be experienced without some degree of
activity. At any rate if the first moment of pleasure finds us passive the
second makes us active: the pleasure of itself being commonly enough
to dispose us in some sort to activity for the sake of protracting and encreasing
it. Music unexpectedly strikes my Ear: for the first moment I am
passive: but if it is agreeable to me, I immediately apply my faculties in
an active manner to attend to it. A fine Prospect meets my Eye: for the first
moment I am passive, but if it give me pleasure, I immediately set my Eyes
to work to investigate its beauties.
As to distinction between a man's
being
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