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Restraint on operations and occupations examined.

to run on in another channel. This they will do in some
men sooner, in others later: nor can it well be said conjectured
without knowing the particular character & circumstances of
the individual one has to deal with, how long his
attachment to such or such a pleasure habit will last continue
to such a degree that the being debarred of it shall
continue to be a punishment. It is not however The
weakness of a man's attachment to any particular
kind o habit is not strictly properly speaking of itself the – [the only] reason why the prohibition
laid upon that habit should not be sufficient penal
enough to answer in general the purpose of a punishment;
the reason is, the weakness of that habit in
comparison of the difficulty of enforcing the prohibition,
that is of the uncertainty of the subsidiary punishment
the honor of which is to compel him to submit to
the other primary one. A punishment of this sort
then seems liable in general to this dilemma. The
attachment to the habit practise is either weak or strong: if weak, the
prohibition is nothing as punishment is nothing; if strong, it will be
eluded.

These observations will help us to account for the
little notice we see figure we see taken of punishments of
this class in any system of Jurisprudence; at the same
time that they will serve to show prove [the reason] that they
deserve not this neglect is not not to be without foundation.

We see already why a punishment soon of this sort can is
scarcely be unfit in general to be annext to a general Law by a person acting
in

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	235	Info in main headings field	restraints on operations and occupations examined
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	in 2 pieces	ID Number	54058
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