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Preface.

I must have recourse a second time
to example: and I need not wander far to find
one. [a] Mr Howard, the prisoners' friend (and who,
in an age of devotion, would have been their Saint)
Mr Howard, by a course of the most hazardous
and painful researches that perhaps it ever
enter'd into the heart of a man not sparred by
fanaticism to engage in, has set on fact a reformation
in our police, for which the latest posterity
will be found to bless him. [6] — Would it
have subdued his resolution? — I hope not —
(Certainly it would have had no great tendency to
fortify it) had he been told by some statesman
of a acknowledged merit, and whose example might
keep despondency in countenance, that prisons
were very dangerous and unwholesome places for
a man to visit; that to establish any general
and consistent plan for their regulation was a
novelty: that there might indeed be some abuses
in them; but that "it had been always found much
"easier to censure than to correct; and that any plan of

Note.

[a] I refer with pleasure on these occasions to a patriot
writer, to whom the Preface I am speaking of is so forward
to do justice. May these liberties be forgiven in an
utter stranger, who at a distance from his person, is
warmed by the splendor of his virtues.

[b] In... 1777, the House of Commons gave him
their public thanks. See the inscription to his book on Prisons

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Folio number	004	Info in main headings field	preface a view of the hard-labour bill
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield emblem]]]
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