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C
Of Theft
From p.26 par.1
2: Because it may happen that the offender
has been bred to a kind of labour which has been
a greater price than the rough labour which
he would be put to in the way of punishment.
If then he was repeatedly Put him to the
rough work,as take him from the work he has
been bred to, it is so much left to the national
stock: keep him from it all his life
long, that loss will be considerable. A hand
in the ship building way for instance may at this hour(Ao 1780) ease
to the amount of half a guinea a day in
England; a first rate prime hand in the mathematical instrument
making way may come to that amount at any time
. The same man if set to beating hemp or
or picking oakham would not earn either
of them 6d a day. Confine such a this for a year
to picking of oakham and the loss to the nation
is £156. Confine him for 20 years, and the
loss is £ 3120.
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From p.32
made restitution of any together with perfect confirmation it is as if that find
had never been taken. Now, provided the Law
will give the offender a motive for doing
it, this is what may very now and then take
place. It may happen that the sudden exigency for which drove
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jeremy bentham |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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