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built for that purpose at Battersea rise; and, as to
Houses, nine hundred — (being the number of separate
Houses, which, over and above such as were to be occupied
in common, were to have been included in that
town) — was assuredly too great a number for good
management: two thousand, consequently, in a much
greater degree too great.

On every as yet exemplified plan of construction and
management, the natural and naturally prevalent
apprehension of unwieldiness has, therefore, very
just grounds to stand upon.

But upon the Panopticon Principle — whether
it be for Paupers or for Convicts — for free and innocent
men or for prisoners — though the number
of the inhabitants be 2000, the House is but one:
and that one House is capable of being pervaded
in all directions, — pervaded by a single glance, and
without so much as a change of posture.

Of the difficulties, which, upon any ordinary plan
of construction, for want of that source of simplification,
attends the business of management, even
in the case of a Poor House, and of a moderate
size, an exemplification may be seen in Pauper
Management improved, p. 43b.; in Panopticon,
Letter VI; and in various parts of the Postscript; and,
in the case of a Prison, in the instance of several
American Prisons, in Panopticon versus New South
Wales, Letter II., pages from 54 to 61.

Identifier: | JB/117/410/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	410	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f23 / f24 / f25 / f26
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	letter 2118, vol. 8	ID Number	39027
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