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Of Theft Reasons

but you do not want to see him suffer much.
Is it a thousand pound you have lost: your distress
is violent: your indignation against the thief
is in proportion: you think no punishment can be
too great for him. The affection of the people then To p. 24 para 2

2
From p. 24
2. In order that the chance which the whole punishment
taken together has of being efficaceous may
be the greater, the greater the offence + + See Introd. the [Proposition Jc] Rule 2 Let Let us suppose that. Take any
man for example, and suppose that
there is a certain quantity of punishment which
he would not subject himself to any the least chance
of for the sake of anything that was to be
got by theft. A punishment equal to that quantity
makes such an imposition on him as
is sure to be efficacous: a punishment short
of that quantity is turned aside as it
even by the imagination and makes no impression
at all. How then an opportunity of stealing a
thing presents itself of stealing a thing of a
certain value; suppose a purse containing £10. If this then
punishment for stealing to the amount of £10
happens not to rise to as high as upon level with that
line of non-resistance above spoken of, it will
signify nothing: he will take the purse: and when
he is about it, as he takes a part he may as
well take the whole. But if the punishment happens

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	048	Info in main headings field	of theft
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f21 / f22 / f23 / f24
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23451
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