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Of Punishments

of disapprobation. In moderate such disapprobation
I would beg him to consider, that the whole
of punishment is but a choice of will.
nothing that bears the name of punishment
is to be approved of by itself: and that
all that can be done by man on such an
occasion is to exhibit a punishment which
for the purpose it is applied to shall be as
liable to objection as any others that can
be [assigned] that therefore in order to convince himself
to reject any mode of punishment a
man should always be prepared to assign
a better one just as if it achievable : that the
triumph of new mode of punishment
is to be governed by the total results of a
multitude of considerations : and that therefore
a mode of punishment which might at first view
might appear suggest itself as being preferable to that in question,
might on a more particular examination be found on some account or other to be absolutely
improper unacceptable to the case.

I would by him to be afraid that
I have no howsoever it may appear to him
I have no real delight in the of
mankind; neither not even in the sufferings of the guilty,

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	143	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	022	Info in main headings field	of punishments
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	48655
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