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Analogy.
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more it is in vain for him to expect to compass.
Now between the following crimes I flatter myself with being able to make it appear
in proper reason with the strongest evidence that there is a manifest gradation
in point of guilt amongst others between the following crimes.

That Robbery is more mischievous than Theft or any kind
of Fraud, House-breaking (accompanied with threats Robbery in a House
or personal violence outrage] than Robbery on the Highway, Homicide for
lucre than House-breaking House-robbery, Homicide committed by Incendiarism of inhabited
buildings) than an other Homicide, Inundation
than Incendiarism. The business therefore
of the Legislator is by a proportionate
scale of Punishment, to drive men down from
Inundation to Incendiarism, from Murderous Incendiarism
to Simple Murder, from Murder to House-breakingrobbery,
from House-breakingrobbery to Highway-Robbery, from Highway-Robbery
to Theft and Fraud. Society would
enjoy a measure of felicity far above what it
has hitherto arrived if all delinquents of every
other denomination of these denominations who offered through from ignorance indigence
were converted into thieves and sharpers. Legislators
inattentive to these obvious distinctions,
blend to the remedy or too indolent to put it
to the trial, [pursuing maintaining] a by bloody uniformity
have give the greatest encouragement annext to the
worst of crimes. They invite men to Inflicting death for Theft,
and inflicting no greater punishment for other
Incendiarism the Legislator invites men to set
fire towns on fire: and the metropolis has seen
the

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	127	Info in main headings field	analogy
Image	003	Titles	perjury
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		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53950
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