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8 June 1812
Panopt.

☞ 1. and 3. speak of the Index expurgatories
2. Rule having himself verbally feared the introduction
of improper articles of luxury, viz. articles better than the
labouring poor can in general afford to procure

Comes now to separate second and opposite article
of charge against the person in question concerning what
would have been done by him, viz. that Whereas
in such degrees of luxury and such degrees alone only of luxury as are
proper degrees luxury ought or at least may without
blame be introduced into a prison employed for the purpose
in question the event so it is that among the degrees of luxury
which under his management would have been introduced
into it would have been improper ones.

Here then is sentence of condemnation passed against a
a man for transgression of a law which has not nor
in the nature of things ever can have any intelligible
interest existence.

What a man means if he means anything when
he says of such or such an article of consumption
a man says the consumption use of it would be matter of attended with
a degree luxury and that use improper degree if he one is – it is
an article which the use of which a person of the sort of in question
is what I do not approve of. To have kept himself
clear of the transgression imputed by this article of charge
what the appointed manager would have had to do
would have been to avoid supplying the persons with
any article the use of which the Author of this Report
would not approve of. But the task will surely be But in this task a whole cluster
acknowledged to be rather too hard an one: and this for of impossibilities was is included: one of which results from this, viz.
various reasons: one of which is that the avowed object of
this Report being to pass condemnation upon the system of
management which he found appointed so sure as any
article should be introduced or proposed to be introduced into
the place in question, so sure would it have been to be among
the number of the articles which by the Honourable author of the said Report would be disapproved of.

Identifier: | JB/118/334/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-06-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	334	Info in main headings field	panopt.
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	39388
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