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Analogy.

But why that water should be boiling is what I suppose it will
not be easy, in conformity to such notions, to make
out.

Of all the ways by in which death can be produced
by means of water drenching seems to be that
which will answer the purpose best in point
of analogy and exemplarity. The objection to it
is the great real severity of such an application
when carried to such a pitch as to be mortal.
The immediate cause of this death in this case would
be the disruption of the membrane in some part
or other of the intestinal canal. Before this effect
were produced, the patient would swell so much
that the external appearance of his body would
be changed in a very remarkable manner have undergone a very remarkable change. This
would make the punishment thus very terrible upon
the face of the execution. But the business would
be to make it show appear terrible in the first instance upon the face of
the description: for if executions of this sort were
likely to be frequent enough to afford an instruction
of themselves independently of the letter of the Law, the
misery they would produce would be too great
a price to pay for any advantage that could be
obtained by adopting one mode of death in preference
to another. For this purpose it would be requisite
the punishment should be expressed not in a
loose and general way so as to throw a veil over
the severity of it, but in a particular and pointed
manner.

Identifier: | JB/159/124/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	124	Info in main headings field	analogy
Image	002	Titles	instrument the same - water
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	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53947
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