JB/117/376/002

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7 Apr. 1811

But it is with reference to the proposed an establishment on the Panopticon plan
that the question is put viz. as will that part
of the question which regard the Governor's servants as
that which regards the Governor himself: "and what" (it is
added) "would the public have under your contract as
"a substitute for this security?"

To this then my an answer is – as a substitute for that
security which is composed of the eventual evidence of a
few constant inmates resident on the spot in the character
of servants, the eventual public would have – besides
the expected continual influx and consequent eventual evidence of its in unlimited numbers, members without limitation to the number in the character of
visitors, a security composed of the eventual evidence
of a much greater number of such constant inmates,
resident on the spot in the character of servants, and
security the same among those men taken from of
life much superior of cultivated understandings such
as the Chaplain, the Surgeon, the Medical Curator
but (not to speak of the Chief Bail-keeper and various Instructors)
men in whom for this purpose as well for respect of probity
as in respect of intelligence for greater dependance could expectation might
rationaly be entertained than could reasonably be entertained
of men any man in the situation of an ordinary Jailers
servant: in a word the public in a Panopticon establishment
they would the public would possess have a security not only the
similar same in kind as that in question, but far superior in
degree.

Identifier: | JB/117/376/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	9-11
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	376	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	38993
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