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21 Dec. 1802
Panopt v. N. S. Wales
In putting blanks instead of names, when blanks without
names would appeared sufficiently intelligible, is it for the object of the
moment only that provision was thus made. The attention
of the reader would might have been distracted — his conception of the
business perplexed and confused, if in his mind prisons the ideas of prisons had
been unnecessarily with those of things.
In passages bearing allusion to former incidents — to incidents already stated in the some preceding part of the narrative
But when the purpose and occasion calls for it, the
mysteries of indignity will be narrated in all their parts and
proportions — blanks must then of necessity give way to names.
C
On individual responsibility every thing depends on
government: by individual responsibility every thing
good is done, that is ever done, but only must ever be
judged by their creator but each man must be judged
by his own works to be judged to any purpose. It is by
individual responsibility, that the arm of that first complexion
that is produced by regard to character without
fear of punishment — it is by individual responsibility that
even among tyrants, the tyranny of one, [where there is a tyranny,]
is will be more tolerable than those of five. It is by from individual
responsibility, if at all, from every thing that the abuses in departments
can ever receive any thing like a radical and lasting
cure:
[+] Though many hands, each at its separate work, may be necessary useful at the outset for the clearing cleansing of the Augean Stable
it is by individual responsibility alone, if at all,
that the heads of the hydra can be severed: — by individual
responsibility in all subordinate departments, though in the department of supreme controul, united suffrage is necessary
to in a government in which the body of the people possess any
official share.
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