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17) Personal Injuries. Aggrav .
Disablement , : & Mutil.n — how they differ in respect the degree of mischievousness . class rise higher than the less atrocious instances of one
of <add>the class</add> [that stands [next] above it. There are pains of the unpleasant acute
kind , that may exceed some pains of the acute kind.
There are pains cares where the whole mass of organical
pain resulting pains of the acute kind [taking
into the account the whole mass organical pain
resulting from one act] may exceed those resulting
from slight disfigurements : and so on with respect
to disablement and mutilation . All that ought to I
would wish to be understood from the climax in which
they stand here arranged is , that the mean quantity
of mischief produced by an offence offences of the class that stands below above
is less greater than the mean quantity produced by these
of a class above .
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May have &c. why distinguished by different titles .
Reasons for giving different names to this is one and general reason and the principal one why it seemed the above different kinds of Injuries . It is for this reason that it seems of use to characterize
these different classes by so many different
names . The mischiefs produced by them: being unequal ,
unequal means punishments of different
degrees of magnitude seem requisite to prevent oppose to them .
Not that the distinctions between all these several classes are
of equal consequence : the grand line of distinction is
between such whereof the mischief is in its nature [of a] transient temporary ,
and such whereof the mischief is on [of a] its nature
perpetual permanent [nature] . The perpetuity duration of these latter
is a The degree of magnitude which these
latter acquird derive from the dimension of duration is such
as gives them a remarkable preponderance over the remaining From the dimension of duration these latter acqui possess
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jeremy bentham |
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