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Imprisonment examined.

called a patriot in his borough. The man who devised
the Oath by which the candidates for degrees were
made to swear engage not to disseminate propagate elsewhere than
at Oxford [and Cambridge] the seeds of what was
thought useful learning was probably thought a
man of great merit at Oxford and at Cambridge.

Not only the force then of that Moral Sanction which
is constituted by the sentiments of the Society at large is
weakened by the situation we are speaking of considering but a
new Moral Sanction is set up, the interests & maxims of which
are in diametrical opposition to those of the former.
Not only the force of those moral considerations which tend to refrain
men from committing crimes is taken off, but
the new force derived from of that very principle that should
apply produce restraint is applied in an opposite direction
so as to impell them on & prompt them to comme delinquency.

The considerations derived from the Religious Sanction
are the sufferings apprehended from the displeasure immediate will of the Deity in some degree perhaps in the present
but chiefly in a future life. This displeasure, whatever
errors men he may have fallen into with respect to the
some of the practises to which they may have supposed
it to be applied, is under the Christian Religion and
particularly the Protestant invariably believed to be annexed
with few or no exceptions to all those male-practises which bring men
into Prisons. The considerations therefore which that Sanction
affords are to be numbered by no means to be omitted among the considerations which
tend f to restrain men from committing crimes. Now the their force
of

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Identifier: | JB/159/200/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	200	Info in main headings field	imprisonment examined
Image	002	Titles	subserviency to reformation / religious sanction
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f29 / f30
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l v g
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	54023
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