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I hope Honourable Gentlemen will not insist in precluding
themselves from the possibiity of seeing the agreed-on number
provided for in the Penitentiary Ho Establishment in this plan, even
though by themselves it should be ever so much approved.⊞ ⊞ In good faith is there
any thing so mischievous
or so odious, or
in economy if economy
be adverse, any thing
so much preferable superior to
good faith, that gentlemen
should make
a point of rendering
in keeping of good faith impossible?
This is
what I can not be
on the part of any
Honourable Gentlemen
I can not more believe,
till I have seen it had no mortification
of seeing it
from his own pen, in hand
hearing if from his is all own lips.
I myself my own wish it would probably be had been, when the
time came, not to introduce As to the introducing the which the whole number all at once,
when the time for opening comes, it what seems probable to me
is that when the time for opening comes it is more than I myself should venture at.

What these would introduce at once What the number that you would
"What then" (it may be said) is the number you would introduce at once? – To
his way My answer is – that at this distance from the time of notice, the fixation of a firm number
does would not, in my humble view of the matter, be consistent
with the rules of human procedure. The building up being erected, and
the circumstances of the terms observed and considered, there would be
the time for fixing upon the first number. Thus for the first experiment:
the experiment succeeding, to then it would be thus in proportion to the degree
of confidence indicated by experience, the number would be
enlarged.

Seven hundred is that which seems to be the greatest number of
male prisoners, the existence of which, under one roof and
one system of Inspection, could seemed in the eyes of the Honourable
Gentlemen in question capable of being endorsed: 400 is the
number, by to the idea of which in the same conception the greatest minds a greater
portion of satisfaction, are seems to be attached. Let them then take
either number, or any intermediate number, at pleasure.
Let them fix for me to time of probation: let them say
and cause it to be , that till the expiration of tis probationary time, the probationary
numbers shall not be exceeded. Let them do this or any thing else that
to them seems reasonable and necessary, rather than to secure
to themselves the regret of seeing 300 or 600 prisoners
precluded from the possibility of doing the being provided for as upon a
the manner in plan, which, even now by the supposition they do not even now disapprove, and the
utility and security of which will, by the same supposition, have been
demonstrated by experience:

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	21-23
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	349	Info in main headings field	letter ii females
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	letter 2110, vol. 8	ID Number	38966
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