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Imprisonment examined.

these while they tend to so with equal to no less force than the other draw
him into the track desired, annihilate in a manner all such the forces
which as tend to draw him into any other. [The bias
salutary bias they give to his reflective faculties
reigns single I understand.]

If there be any one in this group of punishments
that is more indispensable than another
it is Solitude: for of all sollicitations that can
be offer'd to the thinking faculties none are so
powerful as those which are offer'd result afforded by the
[presence of activity] in company society of (one's fellow-men)
creatures of the same species. Next perhaps to
this is confinement, without which indeed in a
populous country the other can not easily be inflicted.
Although Darkness is not essential to confinement:
though set confinement however (unless the disabling punishment
of a temporary blinding be recurred to, which
cannot easily commodiously be done) be is essential to Darkness.
Darkness is of art as has been already observed
by the for the sake purpose of reducing still lower [than it could
otherwise be] the number of impressions [to] which the
mine is liable [open] to receive. But it has besides another use
which will be consider'd presently ... Neither cold
Hard Diet the punishment be oft sal omitted without having an important deficiency

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	195	Info in main headings field	imprisonment examined
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l v g
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	54018
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