JB/159/128/004

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Analogy
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A punishment that being is seen to bear any analogy
to the offence, is on that account popular
for the same reasons it is peculiarly subservient to the purpose
of reformation. By a natural turn of the imagination
it is apt to appear just in the eyes of a bystander:
from the same principle it appears just so
in the eyes of the sufferer himself. There is a
certain play of words and ideas that dazzle and
confound him, and silences every objection while complaint
he might find be disposed to make against the punishment
on the score of severity quantity were it in point of
quality analogous in point of quality. The close correspondence
be obvious between his offence the crime and
the punishment has the effect of rendering the former
more odious in his eyes. From the contemplation
of the artificial and conventional
quality of the crime over that of being linked to
such a punishment thus related to it, he contracts an a degree aversion
for the former which perhaps he would not have contracted
had it been linked to another any a punishment
of equal severity chosen taken at random. As to This
propensity however salutary [it becomes the philosopher
and the statesman to understand that it is
founded on the of strength of the imagination
and

Identifier: | JB/159/128/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	128	Info in main headings field	analogy
Image	004	Titles	same instrument / poisoning / no. 2 note / analogy subservient to reformation
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	53951
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