JB/150/341/001

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Police Report

Expence of punishment
2. Transportation to a
ready planted Colony

The stores of reward being limited and even
the degree of its influence its efficacy precarious to do bring about every thing by
reward and nothing at all by punishment discard punishment altogether would
be a system an enterprise altogether inconsistent with the slightest
knowledge of human nature. Not only in
the Hous Penitentiary House, but even in the Boarding
School, and in the very Nursery - in the
bosom of the fondest parent punishment
must be constantly in view prospect , or no steady habit
of exertion can be made to take place implanted or kept up. Yet in
this case as in the other To the ex But whatever
be the object to be accomplished - the extraction of
labour or any thing else — the p influence and
efficacy of punishment is proportioned — not to the
quantum of suffering pain <add>sufferance actually inflicted, but
to the wisdom with which the pain that sufferanceing or rather the
prospect of it, is applied. So long as the abode presence
of the party within the is secured by physical
means, as much labour the mild and regulated discipline of
this country is as fully competent to the extraction
of labour, and of labour to the utmost
labour to as great quantity
and value as
in whatever quantity is consistent
with the health of the labourer, as that
of the most hard hearted capricious and obdurate master of antient Greece
or Rome. Caprice and unbridled passion
compose the horrors of a state of servitude:
but in under the government of this country no passion is without
its bridle: and it is by steadiness, not by
caprice, that labour is extracted to advantage.

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Identifier: | JB/150/341/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	150	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales; police bill
Folio number	341	Info in main headings field	police report
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50562
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