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insupportable + + torture miseries of such a torture of such a situation, by the — by the
lesser miseries sufferings of insanity.
according to the Rule our constant & as it should seem unimpeachable Rule

When we compare the mischief of the [political] disease
to the mischief of the remedy, what a signal want
of oeconomy does there appear in the adoption of the
latter? I am apt to imagine that the mischief of
the remedy in this case is purely gratuitous and stands
uncompensated by any abatement in the mischief of the
disease — and that the distant and uncertain confused prospect
of a the contingent penalty is a less lovable motive
than present and certain anguish from the wound to the parent material affection; and that at least ordinarily where
the latter fails in it's efficacy the former would fail also. But even
allowing that the execution of one Mother may prevent
the Man slaughter of several Infants; [how many or how few no one
can + + before a trial of the abolition of the punishment pretend to say] the Ballance seems still to be very
greatly against the Law — to form a clear judgment of it
we must agreable to method we have [established] constantly all along pursued upon the like occasions
consider it separately as resulting first 1st from the comparison
of the mischiefs misery to the immediate objects — 2dly to
the Society at large —

Identifier: | JB/096/217/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	217	Info in main headings field	childmurder homicide of infants
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / / / c17
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31221
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