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Laborious Punishment – Eden

relates to Mines which include Stannaries that is Tin-Mines
and Saltworks, this seems liable to objections
which though not perhaps insuperable required some the
precaution to be taken to remove them) to be attended to.

In the first place are there any such mines in
this country that are the property of the public?
If there are not, it depends upon the private owners
whether or not workmen will be received.

In the next place many of these are looked upon
as a peculiar class of employments occupations by themselves
distinguished from all other d kinds of labour, and
distinguishing those who are engaged in them from
the common run of labourers those who are engaged in them.[a] Hence there may be some danger
least the putting of criminals to these employments
should bring the employments themselves into disrepute. Now
bands of criminals being from time to time poured
in upon them, they would in time if not at first
be looked upon as employments fit for none but
criminals: [the idea of criminality and shame I would
become intimately connected with them] the ideas of
them would contract a kind of association with
those of criminality and shame.⊞ ⊞ The terms miner or tin miner, or salt-worker and felon might become synonymous. At present they
are exercised by good and lawful men: these, by
their aversion to associate with their stigmatized companions,
would either be driven out of the employments
they

NOTE
[a] The Miners of Cornwall have Laws Customs, Legislatures
and

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	223	Info in main headings field	laborious punishment eden
Image	002	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
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Notes public		ID Number	54046
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