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' | <head>Jan<hi rend="superscript">y</hi> 1809 s4 <unclear>1)</unclear></head> | ||
<head>Peines Paley's Net</head><!-- headings in pencil --> | |||
<p><unclear>Moral</unclear> and <gap/> <unclear>proper</unclear> <unclear>in</unclear> <hi rend="underline"><gap/></hi> <gap/> in punishment<lb/> | |||
Paley on Utilitarian - a <unclear>futile</unclear> <gap/> -<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">Fisher of men</hi><lb/> | |||
<unclear>Practise</unclear> first, reason afterwards.</p> | |||
<note>1 Per Paley. Policy of English law to sweep all into a net & then make selections for punishment</note> | |||
"The <hi rend="underline">law</hi> of England", <add>(continues the Reverend Doctor)</add> is <hi rend="underline">constructed</hi> upon a different<lb/> | |||
"and a <hi rend="underline">better</hi> policy. By the <hi rend="underline">numbers</hi> of statutes<lb/> | |||
"creating capital offences, it sweeps into the <hi rend="underline">net</hi> every<lb/> | |||
"crime, which under any <hi rend="underline">possible</hi> circumstances may<lb/> | |||
"<hi rend="underline">merit</hi> the punishment of death - <hi rend="superscript">+</hi> | |||
<note><hi rend="superscript">+</hi> <!-- pointing finger symbol --><del><gap/> <gap/></del> Each statute specifies itself the very circumstances in which the supposed <del><unclear>new</unclear></del> demand for death is grounded.</note> | |||
but when the execution<lb/> | |||
of this sentence comes to be <hi rend="underline">deliberated</hi> upon, <hi rend="superscript">+</hi> | |||
<note><hi rend="superscript">+</hi> without <unclear>expressible</unclear> reasons</note><lb/> | |||
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Jany 1809 s4 1) Peines Paley's Net
Moral and proper in in punishment
Paley on Utilitarian - a futile -
Fisher of men
Practise first, reason afterwards.
1 Per Paley. Policy of English law to sweep all into a net & then make selections for punishment
"The law of England", (continues the Reverend Doctor) is constructed upon a different
"and a better policy. By the numbers of statutes
"creating capital offences, it sweeps into the net every
"crime, which under any possible circumstances may
"merit the punishment of death - +
+ Each statute specifies itself the very circumstances in which the supposed new demand for death is grounded.
but when the execution
of this sentence comes to be deliberated upon, +
+ without expressible reasons
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