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<head>Measure of Punishment.</head> | |||
<p><unclear>Recapitulate</unclear> at last the number of <gap/><lb/>to be attended to in settling the bounds<lb/>of punishment, and thus which can be attended<lb/>to by the Legislator and which must<lb/>be left by him to the Judge.</p> | |||
<p><del>A circumstance</del> <add>There is one consideration</add> that tends to limit the <del><gap/></del> quantity<lb/>of torment in capital punishment: <del><gap/><gap/></del> <add>to wit in point of intensity</add><lb/><del><gap/></del> <add>Whatever</add> influence it has is exerted at one or other<lb/>of two conjunctions: on the reading the description<lb/>of the punishment as given by the Law: or on<lb/><del><gap/></del> seeing the execution.</p> | |||
<p>On reading of it <del>what strikes him most is</del> <add>the circumstance most apt to strike</add><lb/>him is the intensity: the circumstance of duration<lb/>is comparatively but little if at all attended<lb/>to. A small difference in the apparent<lb/>intensity of two <del>modes</del> <add>kinds</add> of death strikes with great<lb/>force upon the imagination: the circumstance of duration is in a great measure absorbed in the<lb/>idea of death, the <unclear>terminating</unclear> catastrophe of the<lb/>whole.</p> | |||
<p><gap/> case is that in the words descriptive of any<lb/>such mode of punishment the circumstance of duration<lb/>in never directly brought to view. Words<lb/>are given which determine <add>represent perhaps</add> as far as it is in the<lb/>nature of words to determine <add>represent</add> the intensity of the punishment:<lb/>but concerning its duration nothing<lb/>at all is said. <del>All that a man can collect can</del> <add>The duration is no further <unclear>limited</unclear></add><lb/>than as it stands limited by the <del>species</del> <add>mode</add> of punishment<lb/>in question. <del>All therefore</del> <add>The utmost therefore</add> that a man can possibly <add>collect</add></p> | |||
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Recapitulate at last the number of
to be attended to in settling the bounds
of punishment, and thus which can be attended
to by the Legislator and which must
be left by him to the Judge.
A circumstance There is one consideration that tends to limit the quantity
of torment in capital punishment: to wit in point of intensity
Whatever influence it has is exerted at one or other
of two conjunctions: on the reading the description
of the punishment as given by the Law: or on
seeing the execution.
On reading of it what strikes him most is the circumstance most apt to strike
him is the intensity: the circumstance of duration
is comparatively but little if at all attended
to. A small difference in the apparent
intensity of two modes kinds of death strikes with great
force upon the imagination: the circumstance of duration is in a great measure absorbed in the
idea of death, the terminating catastrophe of the
whole.
case is that in the words descriptive of any
such mode of punishment the circumstance of duration
in never directly brought to view. Words
are given which determine represent perhaps as far as it is in the
nature of words to determine represent the intensity of the punishment:
but concerning its duration nothing
at all is said. All that a man can collect can The duration is no further limited
than as it stands limited by the species mode of punishment
in question. All therefore The utmost therefore that a man can possibly collect
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