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their places of birth or antecedent settlement it could
in the open mode in the large scale, it would
hardly, I presume, be deemed worth while so
much as to build one additional Panopticon as
above, much less, to establish, in each County in the closed mode upon the small scale, or
set of associated counties, a Penitentiary House or
improved Prison or any other plan or plans. On this the object ultimately 25
occasion, the object ultimately and intrinsically aimed at would be, I suppose,
not the birthplace of each person, nor yet his place of
last settlement as such, but the place whereever
it were, of his choice.— But, take either of those 26.
places of presumed preferences, the stain upon his
character considered, it might not less probably
be the spot that of all others he would be most desirous, to fix
upon for his residence.

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2. The subsidiary establishment, which, under the
Panopticon plan, the Governor would stand round
to provide for the purpose of making provision
for all such as chose to accept it, has for its basis
the supposed non—existence of any such place of former
abode, or the unwillingness to fix in it: and
the least that this provision does is to remove
from the ground of necessity to that of mere
inclination, the demand of means of conveyance to
any other spot.

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3 Whatsoever spot be, in preference to the above
—mentioned subsidiary establishment, the object
of each man's desire, that portion of the earning
of his whole term, which by the contract is secured
to him, must be small indeed, if it does not afford
him ample means of gratifying that desire.

Identifier: | JB/117/427/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	25-28
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	427	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d24 / f27
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2118, vol. 8	ID Number	39044
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