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Letter 3d 23 Nov 1802 XVI. Improved prisons

But the less the expence of reformation the less it will be grudged.

Neither by talents nor by exertions can the nature of things
be changed.—It
It is a point proposition/position I have had occasion to discuss make good/establish elsewhere,+
that cæteris paribus the produ net productiveness of any
branch of lucrative money-getting/profit-seeking industry will be as the largest of the
scale on which it is conducted. In all whatsoever
without exception, it is matter (the demonstration is a strict one,
and comes within the provision of mathematics)+ the greater
the space contained, the less the quantity of matter requisite
for the containing of that space. By the same powerful
cause, the effect is influenced in a variety of other ways:
amongst others, by in the diminution of the number and expence
of inspecting eyes. If this be true of all such
concerns in general, it will be more particularly true
in proportion as reluctance or and or awkwardness such as
unpractised and awkwardness prevails among the working
hands.

+ Papers intituled
Pauper-management
improved in Youngs
Annals 1797 Chap.
III. Buildings and land.

+ Yes, my Lord, even
"of arithmetic and
its calculations")

12
This is one of the
rocks on which
Pitts Poor plan
would have split. Waste more than
3/4 to establishments
on the Suffolk
scale—in main buildings
and Pitts would
have been much
smaller.

Among the variety of reocks, on any one of which Mr Pitt's ever-memorable
Poor plan would have split upon was thus of the smallness
of the scale. I do not mean Nor certainly of the tout ensemble
for—that was as large as it could be—
but of each component establishment, as distinguished by a
separate mass of building and a separate set of offices official establishments. Had the scale been as large as that of the average of state of existing
Suffolk Industry houses, the estimated expence for the whole of South Britain
upon that scale it would have been £10,275,250.
Do upon the proposed Panopticon scale and plan & scale £2,397,000
Difference in Waste being the amount of the difference £7,918,250.
Waste, though altogether blameless and unpreventible.
Two thousand to a house was the number upon the that Panopticon
plan and scale: two hundred in round numbers upon the above mentioned—the upon that Suffolk Scale: but
upon Mr Pitt's plan and Mr Roses plan they would have
been upon all scales of all sizes been of all manner of smaller sizes. The eight million—the amount of the waste upon that single article—would have
been frugality, in comparison of the waste of Mr Pitt
aimed at by Mr Pitt.

Identifier: | JB/116/543/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-11-23	Marginal Summary Numbering	11-12
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	543	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	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	38076
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