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admission or non-admission of such an article into
the general stock of punishments. As the sentiments
however are conceived in general terms, and are equally
applicable to the one purpose as the other, it will not
it should seem be foreign to the design to take some
notice of them here. As the force of them has in
a manner solely in the words, it is only in some when clothed
in particular form of words that I can pretend to
catch them: and it is for that reason only, and
not from my propensity to cavil that I find myself
obliged to give a personal application to the
following remarks. remarks that follow.

A "leading principle" says the Author I have
been speaking of, "is that which forbids penal laws
"to attach the natural sentiments of the heart."† † Princ. Pen. Law. p.31. Ed.1. p.44. The same maxim had already been laid down in p.14, nearly in the same words. See p.7. The
The reason in which this maxim is deliver'd is that
of a Law which backs the punishment of Transportation
with that of Death.

What a man's meant meaning was who should
speak of a Law as attaching the natural sentiments
of the heart, were he to stop there I should not very clearly
understand. But the Author goes farther. He explains
himself by a very beautiful piece of Latin; the English
of which is that he must be a hard hearted
man who does not love his country; and that a
good man would not hesitate to die for it.[a]

Thus then stands the argument. A man who
is not a man of a hard heart is fond of being in his own
country

NOTE

[a] Duri est non desiderare patriam. Cari sunt parentis, cari libers

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	141	Info in main headings field	popularity
Image	002	Titles	humanity / note / popularity / religion
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f21 / f22 / f23 / f24
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	53964
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