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XVII Improved Prisons 116b 610 In all receptacles without exception (the demonstration
is a strict one, and comes within the
province of mathematics — yes, my Lord, even
"of arithmetic and its calculations") the greater
the space contained, the less the proportion
of matter required for the containing of that
space. By the same powerful cause, the effect
is influenced in a variety of other ways:
amongst others, by 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 unpractised awkwardness, prevail among
the working hands. —

Among the variety of rocks on any one of
which Mr Pitt's ever memorable Poor plan
would have split, was that of the smallness
of the scale. Not certainly of the tout ensemble —
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 officers. Had the scale been as large as
that of the average of the existing Suffolk
Industry Houses, the estimated expence for the whole

Identifier: | JB/116/610/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	610	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d13
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	cw 1799
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. abbit lees
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38143
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