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Imprisonment examined.

A belief of The historical matter relations whereon these Systems
are grounded are such as cannot be believed without a man in order to believe
(I speak in the language of the adversary) must
first have confirmed himself in the habit of believing
swallowing inconsistencies, and corrupted the stamina
of his f judging faculties.

sufferance imagined to be infinite. But without entering into
the grounds of this objection it [may be dan decisively is a decisive answer to it
removed by observing] that each malefactor is but one
person: and the persons who are exposed to suffer
(that is either pains of sufferance of pains
of apprehension) ar by his single disposition if
not corrected), are a large and indefinite number part
of the whole number of persons in the society.

The Such are the answers which seem proper to be into
be submitted to the objectors I am supposing, deeming
it useless to answer men but upon any other than their own
principles.

The Religious Sanction has this property that distinguishes
it above the other two Sanctions, that it
applies in a case where neither of those others
can apply: viz: where the fact is supposed by the perpetrator to be
so secret, as not to be in any danger of being
discovered by the eyes of men. It may therefore tend
to deter a man from all sorts of crimes in the case where these just mentioned.

From these considerations I think we may conclude
were all others wanting, that in the instance of such malefactors


Identifier: | JB/159/202/003
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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

159

Main Headings

punishment

Folio number

202

Info in main headings field

imprisonment examined

Image

003

Titles

religious sanction

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f33 / f34 / f35 / f36

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

54025

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