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PUNISHMENT END. Favour to the Innocent, as Such, reprobated. [viz. at the criminal's expence.] 2
The demand for Compensation and the principles by which it is governed is the same here in matters criminal as when in civil, when the distributive is violated in a manner comparatively innocent. That all men should be indifferent to the Legislator
intendently to the consideration of demerit
will be readily enough assented to by most men.
The difficulty will be to persuade them, prove to them
that this is still the case, after an inequality
in that particular: and that the happiness of
a Criminal should be holden in the same aestimation
as an equal quantity of happiness in of
one that's innocent
Prejudice & stubborn Nature must give way before this be is can be embraced Yet this is a necessary consequence of the banishing
the principle of vengance, & adhering exclusively
to that of utility.
If it directs the punishing of guilt it is not for the sake of introducing a clear punishment on the guilty object,
but merely by the introduction of a less quantity
of mischief to expel a greater.
It regards above all things the domination of the
sum total of misery at whatsoever rate: nor will
at any rate — admitt a greater quantity into Society
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