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Analogy.

Water may be employ'd for the destruction of a living
being in various ways. The most obvious is that
of drowning: in which it acts no otherwise
that by serving to shut out the air from that
organ to which the application of it is necessary
for the support of life. In this way the analogy This mode of applying this
might be kept up but instrument would answer
as well as any other the purpose of analogy. But on the score of proportion it may be liable to objection:
the death it produces is as easy as it is possible
for death to be. This would be objection would be a decisive objection
to it if it were necessary that any other offence
should be punished with so great a punishment as
that of death. For the a mischief of and inundation
in a certain cases is to so great, that it is necessary
in those cases to make [any other crime
whatsoever eligible to the offender.] it the interest of
the offender to committ any other prefer any other that can be imagined in preference to
this.

Another way in which water has been said to
be have been employ'd for this purpose is by dropping
slowly on the head. I have often heard it said,
but I know not upon what foundation, that
water falling drop by drop upon the head, (keeping
to the same spot) will in less than an hour
produce such a degree of torture as is of itself
sufficient to put a period to the patient's life destroy life.
The continually encreasing cold produced by the evaporation
might I doubt not would doubtless produce within
that


Identifier: | JB/159/123/004
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Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

159

Main Headings

punishment

Folio number

123

Info in main headings field

analogy

Image

004

Titles

rape / incendiarism / inundation / instrument the same water

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / f6 / f7 / f8

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

caroline vernon

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

53946

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