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Measure of Punishment

of the Air, – the Thermometer for that of the heat
of the weather. Those who are not satisfied
with the accuracy of these instruments must
find out others that are shall be more accurate, or bid
Adieu to Natural Philosophy.

Money is the instrument for pecuniary pain
& pleasure. These G

or bid adieu to Politics & Morals.

Now then what is the temptation its motive to the offence?
The present apparent profit of it. As that profit is greater
the temptation to the offence is greater. The
punishment therefore must must (in point of severity)
rise to in order to have any effect (rise with the temptation
to the offence.) be greater too.

Would one think it? this almost self-evident
maxim has been (censored by a late ingenious
writer been) censored as a maxim of cruel &
mistaken policy. Where is the cruelty? where
is the mistake? This he has not be at the the author is what nobody has
pains thought fit to tell us.

NOTE

It would be easy to show that if the mischief
of an offence be any thing at all, there is very it can hardly
very rarely happen that a the mischief of so much punishment⊞ ⊞ taking the whole community into the account as is adapted to
the case, should exceed that of the crime offence.
If it were the punishment would not be to be
justified.
To Ins. 5 at bottom.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	118	Info in main headings field	measure of punishment
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::propatria [britannia motif]]]
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