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Lett. IV

In an ordinary House of Correction, upon the close plan exposed to no more than
a limited degree measure of inspection, all the only motive which
you have to trust to for the application of that limited
measure quantity is public spirit.

In a Panopticon House of Correction upon the open plan
the chance you have for inspectors brought sent thither by
public spirit is as the number of inhabitants in the whole neighbouring
population, to the number of specially appointed inspectors
in the other case: and thus as to the sort of motives in addition to
the single motive of public spirit, what you have in the one
case you have, besides curiosity, jealousy, envy, hatred, malice and
all uncharitableness in the other. In consideration of
the effects produced by them in other cases, these non-
motives pass under the name of bad ones: but
were the application of them confined to cases of the sort
here in question, good would be the only one of the bad
motives that would be found justly applicable.

The bait held out to curiosity will be on the inaptitude
of the establishment: the strength and efficiency of the excitement applied provocation to jealousy and
envy will be strong in proportion to the height elevation of the
station possessed by the inversely as the number of the
managing hands, and directly as the height/altitude of the level
in which they are placed. But the height of the level
in which the managing hands are placed will also be as the
magnitude of the establishment. What is the practical inference?—that therefore in every cases
to which this plan if construction applies there should be let there be but
one manager and let that the establishment placed under his
management should be as large as the nature of the case admitts
of

Identifier: | JB/117/307/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	38-41
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	307	Info in main headings field	1o lett. iv
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	see note to letter 2118, vol. 8	ID Number	38924
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