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Analogy.

Water may be employ'd for the destruction of a living
being in various ways. The most obvious is that
of drowning: in which it acts no otherwise
that by serving to shut out the air from that
organ to which the application of it is necessary
for the support of life. In this way the analogy This mode of applying this
might be kept up but instrument would answer
as well as any other the purpose of analogy. But⊞ ⊞ on the score of proportion it may be liable to objection:
the death it produces is as easy as it is possible
for death to be. This would be objection would be a decisive objection
to it if it were necessary that any other offence
should be punished with so great a punishment as
that of death. For the a mischief of and inundation
in a certain cases is to so great, that it is necessary
in those cases to make [any other crime
whatsoever eligible to the offender.] it the interest of
the offender to committ any other prefer any other that can be imagined in preference to
this.

Another way in which water has been said to
be have been employ'd for this purpose is by dropping
slowly on the head. I have often heard it said,
but I know not upon what foundation, that
water falling drop by drop upon the head, (keeping
to the same spot) will in less than an hour
produce such a degree of torture as is of itself
sufficient to put a period to the patient's life destroy life.
The continually encreasing cold produced by the evaporation
might I doubt not would doubtless produce within
that

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	123	Info in main headings field	analogy
Image	004	Titles	rape / incendiarism / inundation / instrument the same water
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53946
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