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Measure of Punishment

so high as by possibility it might be.
If the inventive cruelty of tyrants has gone as
far as it could in point of intensity, it has
fallen short however somewhat in point of duration.
, or Shame, or fear, or some remnant of compassion
has kept them within some though
much too ample bounds. In almost all countries however
they have been ready enough to run the
length of simple death: nor in any more ready
than in our's where compassion or fear has in
most cases kept them from going beyond adding any thing to
of unnecessary pain to that concluding punishment. The bent therefore
of Legislators in this country having been to
screw up on the slightest occasions the quantity of punishment to this
pitch upon the slightest occasions, this has where compassion or something else has almost always
stopt it, this has served as a sort of standing point: and men
have been more apt to reckon downwards from
this, than upwards from any such point as
that of the profit of the crime. In truth it
will be found necessary to go as high in some
cases as humanity and the sentiments of the
people will allow of: that is to produce as
much real pain as s necessary to the pro- by the apparent pain it produces, appears likely to contribute produce
a benefit more than equivalent in the way
of preventing the offence. This then being
one fixt point, the other is that which is next
above

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	115	Info in main headings field	measure of punishment
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53938
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