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Quasi-Imprisonment Territorial Confinement and Banishment.
The difference of Laws is another circumstance that
may contribute something to render Relegation and Banishment irksome,
but especially the latter. This circumstance however
is not likely to have much weight with the common
people: not much even in Eng our England
a nation which values itself so much upon it's
the Laws: still less almost any where else.
The difference of Climate is another circumstance
of rather more importance to the bulk of the common
people. The change from a hotter climate to a colder
is to some persons very irksome. The change from
a colder to a hotter is still rather more apt to be so,
because the it is easier to make one's self warmer
by artificial means than colder. Besides this the
change from a w colder climate to a warmer is more
apt to be fatal, than vice versâ.
Considering men collectively in whole nations, the degree
of their attachment to their country is liable to decided
differences. The Swiss and the Jews seem
to be the antipodes of each other in this respect.
Among the Swiss there is a known distemper called
la maladie du pays, produced by the uneasiness
which a citizen of that country is apt to contract
from the circumstance of being included by it. At
the same time the Swiss are as apt to scatter them
The Swiss for all all this are remarkable for their disposition
propensity
to expatriate. But there is no part of the human
character more notorious, than the value men get by powers
which eventually they never perhaps exert. It is only
Persons
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jeremy bentham |
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