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open mode upon the large scale— suppose this to
be the result — I do not now ask whether government
—what I now ask is whether the local authorities —
would, upon the view of this experiment, be more
forward than they have been hitherto to proceed in the
close mode upon the small scale? would these
local authorities be of themselves more forward, or
would the already overloaded contributions to the Poor
Rates have any reason to thank them, or be disposed
to thank them, if they were?

On this view then, all I venture to propose—which
is all I wish to propose, but which, with all
humble submission, I do venture to propose, is—
that, as for the purpose of preventing the comparative
experiment, the institution of an establishment
in the open mode upon the large scale has now
been kept back for above eleven years, so now, to avoid
losing any part of the benefit of that only instructive
experiment, the institution of any more such
establishments in the close mode upon the small
and thence enormously expensive scale, may be kept
back for one year.—Kept back, did I say?—What
I mean is nothing more — for it would be sufficient—
than that the recommendation and enforcement
of it be kept back for that same year.

On the character of Magistrates, Country
Gentlemen whose zeal in the course of humanity
and morality may, by engaging them in the
exclusive study of the only mode they saw left to
them

Identifier: | JB/117/411/002 "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	411	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f27 / f28 / f29
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	39028
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