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who are supposed to think for them? —Wh When it
was their own business, they thought nothing about
the matter: let us hope to at last, and that when year after year they kept they destroying men by hundreds, for want
of thought. Henceforward, now that they have made
it other people's business to think of it — men that
they have made a pretence for themselves for not
thinking of it — a pretence which they never had
till now — is it now that they will begin to think
to it? they of whom, upon the most favourable
of all possible constructions, the best that can be
said is, that they never bestowed a thought upon it
before?

Thus much as to principle: now for experience.
The time is short: yet not so short, but that
experience crow crowds into it.— Under Lord Pelham,
of Remedy islingers backward, Abuse shows the speed which
it is in the power of encouragement to produce.

The place being to the made, by whom was it to
be filled? By any body that had the will to fulfill
the duties of it? by any body who had so much
as the power? — Alas! no:— under Lord Pelham
such requisites are not required.—

Had the removal of the abuse been the object,
one description of persons were marked out by the
nature of the case, as the persons to be advised
with at least, about the choice. it is scarce
necessary to say, were the persons from whose spontaneoustaneous
and disinterested exertions knowledge
of the existence of the mischief had been obtained.
In that quarter appeared at any rat rate the fairest presumption

Identifier: | JB/116/638/002 "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	638	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d53 / d54
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7, and note 4 to letter 1824, vol. 7	ID Number	38171
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