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Simple afflictive Punishments Whipping and Beating

Whipping and beating on as they are the most obvious so are they the most general modes of applying afflictive punishment that are in use. Whipping is striking with a flexible instrument: beating, with an inflexible one. As the degree of flexibility is ? of infinite variation, the two modes have spoken of no run into one another in a manner not to be distinguished. When the instrument is so flexible as to be ?, when agitated, to run into a knot, it is called a whip: when it is not so flexible as that, but yet enough so to apply itself to the windings of the surface it is made to strike upon, it is called a rod: in both these cases the action of striking with it is called whipping. When it admits not even of this degree of flexibility, it is called a stick: in this case the action of striking with it is called beating.

In whipping and beating, the effect we see is produced by the mechanical powers of the instrument: it acts principally by impulse: and it is the instrument that ? is made to act upon the patient.

The part to which this punishment is applied when inflicted by authority of the magistrate is in this and most countries, commonly the back. In schools, under the authority of the domestic jurisdiction, the usage in

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-8
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	144	Info in main headings field	simple afflictive punishments
Image	001	Titles	note / text
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	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53967
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