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<head>Forfeiture of Reputation</head> | |||
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<p>who has undergone a degradation of rank is thereby commonly <lb/> rendered worse upon the whole than if he had never <lb/> been possessed of it: because in general simply not <lb/> to possess is not so bad as having possessed to lose. <lb/> To speak with more precision it should seem that the <lb/> characteristic pain of the moral sanction produced by <lb/> such a punishment is in general more than equivalent <lb/> to the sum of such casual benefits of that <lb/> sanction as the punishment fails to take away. </p> | <p>who has undergone a degradation of rank is thereby commonly <lb/> rendered worse upon the whole than if he had never <lb/> been possessed of it: because in general simply not <lb/> to possess is not so bad as having possessed to lose. <lb/> To speak with more precision it should seem that the <lb/> characteristic pain of the moral sanction produced by <lb/> such a punishment is in general more than equivalent <lb/> to the sum of such casual benefits of that <lb/> sanction as the punishment fails to take away. </p> | ||
<note> | <note>Forfeiture of <lb/> reputation how <lb/> measured — it <lb/> cannot be extra<lb/> Scale of Infamy.</note> | ||
<p>25</p> | <p>25</p> | ||
<p> It is common enough to speak of a <hi rend="underline">total</hi> loss of <lb/> reputation; and some Jurists speak of such a loss as <lb/> if it could easily be, and were frequently incurred.<hi rend="superscript">a</hi> But <lb/> such a notion is not compatible with any precise idea <lb/> of the import of that term? So understand this it will <lb/> be necessary to conceive in idea, a certain average or <lb/> mean quantity of reputation equal to <del>0>/del> <add>zero</add> from whence <lb/> degrees of good reputation may be reckoned on one side <del><add>the plus side</add></del> <lb/> and of had reputation on the other <del><add>minus side</add></del>. This means quantity <add>of</add> </p> | <p> It is common enough to speak of a <hi rend="underline">total</hi> loss of <lb/> reputation; and some Jurists speak of such a loss as <lb/> if it could easily be, and were frequently incurred.<hi rend="superscript">a</hi> But <lb/> such a notion is not compatible with any precise idea <lb/> of the import of that term? So understand this it will <lb/> be necessary to conceive in idea, a certain average or <lb/> mean quantity of reputation equal to <del>0>/del> <add>zero</add> from whence <lb/> degrees of good reputation may be reckoned on one side <del><add>the plus side</add></del> <lb/> and of had reputation on the other <del><add>minus side</add></del>. This means quantity <add>of</add></p> | ||
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Forfeiture of Reputation
C
who has undergone a degradation of rank is thereby commonly
rendered worse upon the whole than if he had never
been possessed of it: because in general simply not
to possess is not so bad as having possessed to lose.
To speak with more precision it should seem that the
characteristic pain of the moral sanction produced by
such a punishment is in general more than equivalent
to the sum of such casual benefits of that
sanction as the punishment fails to take away.
Forfeiture of
reputation how
measured — it
cannot be extra
Scale of Infamy.
25
It is common enough to speak of a total loss of
reputation; and some Jurists speak of such a loss as
if it could easily be, and were frequently incurred.a But
such a notion is not compatible with any precise idea
of the import of that term? So understand this it will
be necessary to conceive in idea, a certain average or
mean quantity of reputation equal to 0>/del> zero from whence
degrees of good reputation may be reckoned on one side the plus side
and of had reputation on the other minus side. This means quantity of
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