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1 March 1811

2. Lay out of the case the above suppose attendant 20. I productive of evil
otherwise in consideration
of evil antecedently<
sustained, be the
ultimate object, the
act is an act done
in gratification of
antipathy:
but is evil the less
an act of punishment
evil, the antecedent injury, you have no longer one the case still an act of punishment vengeance. What you have
is not an act performed in and for the gratification of
mere antipathy. But the supposition having for its
author or agent the man in power the legislator or the
judge, it is still - it is not the less an act of punishment.

Of acts and habits of punishment on the point of men in power having for their 21 Preference if such
anti-pathetic punishment
-punishment
for heresy in opinion
or tast
object neither more nor less than the gratification of antipathy
instances of an abundant are to be found in the
codes of all malices affordpresent instances in abundance:
differences in matter ofopinion; differences in matters of taste:
holding opinionsan opinion different from thosethat of the man in power 22
In these cases, to
save the punishment
from the reproach of being
ultimately intentional
the existence of antecedent
evil in that the prevention
of which is the object of
the punishment may
sometimes be pledged
deriving pleasure from senses a source from which he
derives no such pleasure.

Here the punishments inflicted on the of heresy,
have the punishment attached to this or that gratification
many of the irregularities of the sexual appetite.

Note (a)

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But that the punishment
has in part at
least the meregratification of
antipathy for the cause
is then proved.
1. Of any determinant
evil the existence is
scarce indicated: never
attempted to be proved
(a) In these cases of this sort prevention of evil supposed to be produced by the obnoxious
acts in question will of couse in case of remonstranceobjection be
alledged as the final cause of the punishment thus inflicted.
But that in general reality it has not been the final cause
that in reality the object in view has been in these cases no other than the
gratification of the passion os antipathy seems proved plainly enough
indicated on the one hand by this viz. that the evil has been purely assumed
m specially particularly indicated much less proved and that of in
any way indicated, in comparison being non attempted to be
made between evil in this from this source and evil having its source in in obnoxious acts of any othe kind, the quantity of the supposed evil been for the incusion of the quantity of punishment to it

Identifier: | JB/159/044/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1	1811-03-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	20-23
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	044	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	note (a)
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d8 / e8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53867
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