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Click Here To Edit Punishment + Restraint. Warburton
In this here sums I must confess something that rumors
of impropriety and begets confusion. The cause for
error if there be any seems to be in this
The refuse to which His Lordship has given the same name of evil
are mischief and crimesmischiefs then and crimes
he makes to many species
of evils. This with
submission, is what they
cannot be: for there is
not any thing genus,
entity , of which
they are both species.
For A mischief in any sense
in which the word has a
meaning by itself is another
form or the a less chance
of pain, or a
loss of pleasure, or a chance
of a loss of pleasure. Pains
and Pleasures are sensa-tions.
. Mischiefs to which
. Crimes on the other hand are acts. But sensations and acts
and objects that lure no common other than
the universal of all real objects. Quickly
executed, there is not any thing that a sensation
is, and that an act is too! How with regard to a mischief
is not synonymous to evil, may for aught I
know be a species of evil. But a crime being an
act is not any species of evil. Crimes it is true
are many of them [productive?] of evil; but it is not this that makes a crime totally an evil. True it is that a crime may be often taken of as an evil in the in-accuracy
of popular discourse: a crime may be
often taken of as an evil
: as in all cases, the
cause is oft to be confounded with the effect. That
this can hardly I think be sufficient authority to
warrant the defining a crime to be an evil, in
a formal logical argument, the presumed object of which is
to correct the errors that are alleged to have arisen
from improprieties in the use of language.
From These distinctions such as they are his Lordship
found desires some very important inference
with regard to practice. Such [with?] as he calls mischiefs
he thinks it right to combat with as much
pain as is necessary to repel them. Such evils as
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and combating them in this manner



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Box

159

Main Headings

punishment

Folio number

013

Info in main headings field

punishment & restraint warburton

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / f6 / f7 / f8

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

caroline vernon

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

53836

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