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Objections Bicetre Proposals
otherwise: the vices of the system have totally and
uniformly over powered the virtues of the individuals.
it has been governed managed always badly and always with
equal badness whatever have been the hands. I call
my system a good one for the short reason of its
being directly the opposite to the still subsisting system
than which there can not be a worse. Those divided
impose reduced to debility by division to debility:
here the strongest of all governments, single handed government
purified by responsibility brought to a pitch
of strictness never till now so much as imagined.
A single person did I say would be to
be intrusted with the fate a of so many individuals?
A single person? I should have said
rather the whole nation. Not an on Does an
one present itself? get footing for a moment Not a single man of that nation
but may witness it, not a single man but
may the same instant make it known and
call out for the correction redress of it. Compare this
with an establishment of four thousand miserables
kept under lock and key in an immense pile of buildings by a body of
great men not one of whom has time to look give cast
a single look glance into upon any part of it.
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