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PUNISHMENT it's END KEYMIS VINDICTIVE PRINCIPLE
"Upon certain actions hurtful to others the of
impropriety & wrong is impressed in Character
to all, not excepting the delinquent." If it is hereby the
Author means, that certain actions are generally &
readily perceived to be hurtful to others it is true
& it is from conceiving perceiving or that our indignation judgment of his guilt is produced
if it be any thing more than a confused
and disapprobation.
When we can give any reason for it, that is the reason & no other.
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The treatment of a good man, that is of a man who has tuned his feelings in unison with the public interest, or rather + v. Keymis Hist/ of the Criminal Law that would be to be always in the right, with that of public opinion or the yet voices of religion, which is always to mean to be so the of such a man & , rises at the sight of : but --- I know that when a man is angry, he wishes to be thought to be in the right: but I should not have thought in cold blood of saying that he must be so..it is the natural inconsistency of men & the impossibility
of entertaining? an underx adherence? to the con?nexion
he has taken up that saves him.
PUNISHMENT It's END //
Resentment is a criticism of right & wrong & why? + because
it usually follows an action prejudicial to the Interest
of Society — but suppose it produced by an action not
mischievous? Is it then a criticism of right & wrong?
no surely — or else what else do we mean by an unjust
resentment
+ T ??? unless whenever a man is angry, x and apprised> of all the facts for I will do it justice if he is in the right, resentment can never be a fit criticism/criterion to be x to
PUNISHMENT END. False - Vengeance - Keymis.
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