JB/116/536/001

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22 Novr 1802 + 3
Letter 2d
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among a number of persons in that condition of life, and
of those habits of mind and body, there will naturally be
a considerable proportion unfit for such outdoor, and
thence fo almost necessarily heavy work, as that which can
alone be improved upon put into the hands of a body of men so lodged. *
* note at bottom of page

Compare In the comparison of the hulk-system with the penitentiary
system, a point which very material point is the most material point of all is — that the ground,
on which the former system approaches to the level of the latter,
is that sort of ground, in which the interest of the individual — the
delinquent prisoner, much more than any other and more public
interest, is concerned: I mean the absence of the measure of
drunkenness, in a situation, in which, except to the drunkard
himself, little mischief would be apt to result from drunkenness.
The ground, on which it sinks to the level of New South
Wales, is the ground which touches, and in the tenderest part,
the interest of the whole community, into which the prisoners
after the expiration of their respective terms, are, one after another, continually
let loose. It is in a state of matured corruption, exceeded
by nothing but that of New South Wales, that they are then
discharged into that society, from which in a f state of less
perfect corruption they had, in consideration of that corruption,
been expelled.

Identifier: | JB/116/536/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-11-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	536	Info in main headings field	letter 2d
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38069
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