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PUNISHMENT RAPE Castr.

It has this excellent property in a Punishment
that it appears to be greater than it is; and as since it is always from the apparent magnitude only
of a punishment, that its influence is to be measured, here is a clear gain on the
side of efficacy without any correspondent loss on the side of suffering
Men: every day undergo daily voluntarily a thousand worse punishments operations for
the sake of life: in this very one in particular.

As it's effects will be very
visible & permanent, there
is no occasion for
the operation's being
performed in
Public
which
will
cut off
the occasion
of that
commiseration
which
might
have
invert reflect
the stream
of popular
indignation
against the
Law.

Certificate to
be signed by the
Surgeon who
should perform it
together with
three 2 others.

It would be an extension
as have
& a fatal error to conclude
that this punishment
was inadequate, because
the severer punishment
of Death has since
been annexed, without
overcoming it altogether —
While
the manners
of the people
were so ,
& protector
to be

amongst
the great
for every
crime, to
say nothing
of those
other


which
were
yet
outside
though
in an
inferior
degree
to the
course of
Justice, any
other punishment
however great build
have been found, one
may almost venture
to say equally
inefficacious

The loss of eyes which accompanied it was evidently capricious
as the Author before — one law atrocious in itself well observed, superfluous & indefensible when attended by the other to say
& helpless Burthen upon the State — without over & above those superior disadvantages — thing of it's atrocity so to be insisted are it was egregiously unoeconomical, without necessite vise

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The Spring on which alone they act they act upon is wanting
No human Law can stop a stone
in it's course to crush a passenger by its fall

A Rule which if they had observed as well in regard to its application
the quantity of punishment particular crimes & punishments as they have to Crimes in general
The Science would have wanted very little of its perfection.
There are instances in which we may yet profit in returning back to
take a Lesson of our rude ancestors.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	106	Info in main headings field	introd. laws civil & criminal all laws penal
Image	001	Titles	punishment
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f8 /
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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