2. poverty– “poverty had urged him to deviate from the paths of virtue.” this shows the connection between class and crime. in many instances, including Jubeart, the desire to escape poverty fules the fire for wrong doing. poverty can also produce other feelings such as jealousy and lust, which, if acted upon, result in condmenation as well.

3. body– this text sheds light on the body as being a tool to escape burden. reading this text was the first time i had considered the body is such a way. “…the uncomfortable ideas with which he was perpetually haunted, he imagined, could only be alleviated by keeping himself on continual agitation of the body, by removing from one place to another.” this idea also makes the idea of torture which we have discussed at great length more understandable. since the body is the vessel used to try and escape undersirable states, often through crime, the body is then the vessel that is tormented and destroyed.

Poverty-  In a state of self-induced poverty (having settled his estate upon his children), Jubeart mines some silver and makes money out it.  “His simplicity,  and being badly paid for his work, had reduced him so low that he was greatly in want of linen and several other necessities” (164). 

Experiment-  In these two pages, we have seen perhaps the three biggest reasons attributed to crime: the first being that is in the criminal’s nature or upbringing, the second that extenuating circumstances drove him or her to commit the crime, and perhaps the third being simple curiosity.  Jubeart says that when he counterfeited the money out of silver, rather than “any fraudulent intention to impose upon the public,” that “it was more for the sake of trying an experiment” (164).