JB/117/395/001

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7 Apr. 1811
Inserendumne ?

True it is that In this as in every other official situation
whatsoever advantage with safety to himself, reputation
and every thing else taken into account he can
make, that he will use his endeavours to make. Such if not verified
in every individual instance is however verified in so
great large a proportion of the whole number of instances that it
is the only ground on which any legislative provision
can will consistently with the rules of human prudence
ever be built.

True it is that unless if by the supposed scarcity no addition
be is made to the facilities, to the means which a man men have
has of giving to making addition encrease to the quantum of profit that
otherwise would be made at the expense of the prisoners,
no such addition will be made.⊞ ⊞ The desire being
by the supposition
always at a maximum
can not
from this any more
than from any other
circumstance, receive any encrease. But the fact is – and
is it if the intimation has been given already the
fact is that by the supposed the falsely supposed security in question addition
to the means which a the man has of making such undue addition:
the burthen of the prisoners, is made. Without this
supposed security, for restraining the persons in question from making
the undue profit in question, there exists the natural public jealously
which a situation of the sort in question finds naturally
attached to it. Add this supposed security [the
jealousy which was your trusty and trustworthy guard is removed. Confidence
you groundless Confidence treacherous and untrustworthy regard guard takes its place.
The bosom of the official person being by this their purge,
cleansed as it seems to them of all sinister interest gentlemen
look upon it as pure. Being thus purified, no such
unctuous desire as the appetite for filthy lucre will in theory can theory find entrance
into it.

In every situation
man will make
every advantage
he can make with
safety — this a
general maxim in
which all legislative
policy ought
to ground itself.

This supposed
security though it
adds nothing to
the mans desire
of making undue
profit (for this
ought in every
situation to be considered
as at a
maximum) does
add to his means.
For, to public jealousy,
which would
have been a check,
it substitutes ill
grounded confidence
which is an encouragement.

Identifier: | JB/117/395/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1811-04-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	395	Info in main headings field	inserendumne?
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39012
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