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intelligent cultivator of penitentiary discipline.

I would attempt such insert in this plan a syllabus of this kind
where it not for oncewould here have been attempted could I have trespassed
so far upon my own time, or could I presume so far
upon the readers patience. To each question
should be subjoined an intimation of the drift
of it and of the uses that might be desired from it
and the use of it. This biography would form one
of the chapters in the history of Prison history
hinted at in the Letters. The life history of each prisoner
would naturally divide itself into three
periods: 1. that the period preceding his commitment: 2. the
period of his confinement: the period subsequent
to his release. The three together would serve
to indicate the influence of the institution in respect regard
to of reformation. A slight trifling reward
would be sufficient to afford sufficient
inducement to the discharged prisoner or his
friends to keep up a periodical correspondence
for that purpose. It is not every body that
would be capable of executing to perfection
the commencement of such a history: but almost
any body might continue it. The first
would be a work historian would have to mount:
his successors would have but to copy, except
what additions or corrections might be suggested
by experience. Considering the authority strength of the
Governor's and authority, the means he would have
of checking the answers of each examinant information by particulars
that might be obtained from others without his

Identifier: | JB/119/068/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	19
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	068	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39579
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