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The keeping of good faith impossible? This is what on the
part of any Honourable Gentleman I can never believe,
till I have had the mortification of seeing it from his
pen, or hearing it from his own lips.
As to the introducing the whole number all at
once, what seems probable to me is that when the time for opening came it is
more than I myself should venture on.
"What then" (it may be said) "is the number you would
"introduce at once." My answer is — that at this distance
from the time of notion, the fixation of a precise number
would not, in my humble view of the matter be consistent
with the rules of human prudence. The building
being erected, and the circumstances of the moment
observed and considered, then would be the time for fixing
upon the first number. This for the first experiment:
the experiment succeeding, then it would be
than in proportion to the degree of confidence indicated
by experience the number would be enlarged.
Seven hundred seem to be the greatest number of
male prisoners, the existence of which, under one roof
and one system of Inspection, seemed in the eyes of the
Honourable Gentlemen in question capable of being endured:
400 is the number, to the idea of which in the
same minds a greater portion of satisfaction, seems to
be attached. Let them then take either number or
any intermediate number, at pleasure. Let them fix for
me a time of probation: Let them say and cause it to be ordained, that
till the expiration of this probationary time the probationary
number shall not be exceeded. Let them do this or,
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letter 2110, vol. 8 |
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