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13 Sept. 1812
To Ld Sidmouth
Panopt and without dirtying Gentlemen's fingers.
But for this, and Had it not been the determination to get crush
rid of Panopticon at any price, – and, rather than it should
not be got rid of, crushed, to set all decency at defiance,⊞ ⊞ and to pursue pursuing, with
with inflexible constancy <hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> and to pursuers in the , which begins with appointing Honourable Gentlemen to sit act as Judges for the purpose of passing condemnation, under an assurance of sharing among themselves the benefit of the pre predetermined for future on a man in whom no fault were was to be found – than would be found – to speak plainly out, my Lord – were had the object been anything thing the better than accumulation of jobs, and profusion, and arbitrary power, and object upon the ruins of that system by, which all those has been put to shame which abuse in all those shapes would have been put to shame, – but for this, improbable the Gentle
worthy Magistrate, whose services in the character of Inspector of
the uninspectable Hulks have been so efficient, and well approved, why, in
Panopticon one is a building of which universal and simultaneous and perpetual inspection
is sufficient the the undesirable characteristic should the
approved? efficient their efficiency be less compleat?
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jeremy bentham |
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andre morellet |
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draft of enclosure to letter 2190, vol. 8 |
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