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Laborious Punishment examined.

5. In point of Exemplarity it has no peculiar advantage;
neither is it subject to any disadvantage.
Symbols of suffering it has none belonging to itself:
for that the circumstance which distinguishes penal servitude from
voluntary labour is but an internal circumstance –
the idea of compulsion subsisting operating on the patient's
mind. The symbols however that belong naturally necessarily
to the Imprisonment punishment it is naturally combined with, I mean
Imprisonment, apply to it of course; and the means
of characterising the condition of the patient by some
peculiarity of dress are so obvious, that these may
be looked upon as symbols naturally connected with
it.

6. In point of subserviency to Reformation it is superior
to any other punishment except [solitary
Imprisonment] that mode of Imprisonment which
we have already expatiated insisted on as being peculiarly
adapted to the purpose.* * it Supra p. Next to the keeping of
malefactors asunder is the finding them employment
while they are together. The work they are engaged in
serves to occupy their attention confines their attention in some measure: the business of the present moment
occupies is enough to occupy their thoughts; they are not driven stimulated by the
impulse of ennui to look out for those topics of excitation
discourse which tend in the manner we have that has been already explained

Identifier: | JB/141/088/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	088	Info in main headings field	laborious punishment examined
Image	002	Titles	frugality / equability / variability in magnitude / exemplarity
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3 / f4 / f11
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	ac
Marginals		Paper Producer	franz ludwig tribolet; ann elizabeth lind
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48305
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