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Allow but of the mitigated degree of seclusion,
and the double Cells in consequence, the
Panopticon plan so far from falling short failing in
point of extensibility in comparison of the current
ones exceeds them in a startling remarkable degree. In this
point so far from a peculiar failing, lies one
of its peculiar advantages. On the common plans
the number of the prisoners meant to be provided
for gives determines the number of the cells. If a supernumerary prisoner presents himself, what can you
do with him? If you take him in you must
put him into or some other of the prisoners into
a Cell where he has a companion: and if so far as you
do this, you give up the principle. The same
incongruity prevents more or less in the with regard to
the day working-rooms: for these are the space
of in these is has been proportioned to the number of
the Cells.
The same No such incongruities do not obtain on apply to the
reception of a supernumerary in a Panopticon.
Solitude not being intended, no plan of solitude
is deranged. The degree of subject subjection and
orderliness
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