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Letter IV
10 Apr. 1811
The superiority superior eligibility of the open mode upon a large scale
as well as on the score of economy as on the score of good management
in other respects is I hope placed above dispute.
But let it be ever so incontestable it seems too much
to expect that it should receive a general, much less a maximum
adoption from the local authorities. In
the thoughts and cares/every such body particular interest of the County that division of the county the concern of which are under its management can not but be
expected to be uppermost. In one county the apprehension
of the charge of the Penitentiary System will be considered as
a sufficient ground for apprizing it altogether: the no, it
will be said, there is New South Wales—there are the Hulks
to one or other places convicts from this county have hitherto
been sent, to one or other let them continue to be sent.
In another County it will be said, Yes: the Penitentiary
discipline is assuredly a good thing: but as far as concerns
our proportion of the charge let the business management of it be
invested in ours—the only proper hands. Patronage is will often be
perhaps at the bottom of all this local patrician: since
humble and uncommonly deserving friend or protegé in the character of an Architect,
a proposed Governor, Chaplain, a medical curator, Patronage, or
some other object as particular such as the amusement of building at other people's expence is perhaps at the bottom.
But whatsoever it be that is at the bottom, nothing
Zeal for the interests of the County—these together with other
motives of equal purity, occupy monopolize/glisten of course on of course the surface.
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jeremy bentham |
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see note to letter 2118, vol. 8 |
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