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1 Bicetre Proposal Objections

I hear objections: — one person to be trusted
with so much money! one person to be trusted with
the fate of so many individuals! that person a
foreigner! and personal interest his motive!

Nothing more natural than these objections:
nothing more capable of being compleatly obviated
to the satisfaction of every any one that will take the
trouble to reflect.

One person to be trusted with so much money
My study has been to reduce the expence magnitude of this part of the trust to its smallest
possible dimensions, & the magnitude of this part
of the trust, and I hope I have succeeded: lower
I think I may say much I believe than any other person could have conceived
possible. Little or none of the expence of the building
need pass through my hands: or not more certainly
than I am capable of giving full as good security
for as any body else could do. If any checks can
be suggested that would take any thing from the
risk without standing in the way of the success, I
submit to them whatever without enquiring what they are they may be. Query degree
of



Identifier: | JB/117/019/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

117

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

019

Info in main headings field

bicetre proposal

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2 / f3 / f4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

38636

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