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Another objection confines itself to the plan
of double Cells. Put two together, it has been
said to me, you weaken your inspective power the force of the inspection
principle: upon concert between them one
of them may eclipse and screen the other.

The objection was ingenious: the answer
is compleat. For one body to eclipse another
with reference to a third, the three must be in
the same right line: bend the line ever so little,
there is an end of your eclipse. The objection
supposes the prisoners to know at what point
the Inspector will be occupy of his at every given
instant, which is impossible. If they did, what
purpose would it answer? the ec their eclipse
would be a regular dance in which the Inspector's
motions would be simultaneously reflected or rather anticipated
by theirs. Their motions would still be
governed by his: and their project transparent: and what end could this answer
to them but that of what could it amount to but a dance? The Eclipse
would be like that in the Rehearsal: and the
author of it would make no better a wall than
in does to Pyramus and
Thisbe.

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