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Laborious Punishment examined.

though forced [even forced labour] will in time lose much
of it's hardship, how much easier will it become when the duration & the mode
the intensity and the time duration and the mode are in some measure
defended in regulated by the will of the workman, and the idea labourer himself
when the bitter fo bitter ideas of infamy is taken away and compulsion are removed
and [the employment is sweetened by] the idea of gain
is brought in to sweeten the employment? in a
word when the workman labourer is left to work by at liberty
and by choice?

7. This mode of punishment is not altogether destitute
of a stand analogy a verbal hand of analogy at least at least of the verbal kind
to that class of crimes which are the most frequent, and for which an efficacious
punishment is most wanted: I mean the crimes crimes, I mean, that that
indigence and rapacity that result from a principle of rapacity or of sloth.⊞ ⊞ The slothful man is constrained to work, the vagabond is confined to a particular spot. The more opposite the restraint thus imposed is to the natural inclination of the patient the more effectually will he be deterred from indulging his vicious propensities by the by the prospect of the punishment that awaits him.
In giving an account of this punishment as applicable applied to
those crimes, the their punishment one may say consists
in them being subjected to [the like hardship a hardship⊞ ⊞ of the same nature with that
or rather pretended similar to hardship] like that to the avoid which
they plunged into delinquency. Their punishment
on the account behaves while in prospect to appear the heavier
to them: the heavier and to others on account of this play of
words, and [relation] of ideas, in some degree the
more just.

8. With regard to the popularity of this species of punishment,
the prejudices of the people are not quite so
favourable to it as could be wished. Impatient spirits
too easily kindled with the fire of independence
have

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	089	Info in main headings field	laborious punishment examined
Image	002	Titles	subserviency to reformation / analogy / popularity
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f12 / f5 / f13 / f6 / f14 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::ac propatria [britannia emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	franz ludwig tribolet; ann elizabeth lind
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	folio now in 2 pieces	ID Number	48306
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