JB/119/081/001

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According to Mirabeau (Monarchie Pruss. B. IV
§ 849, p.11) the time for sleep in the among the peasantry in
the North of Germany is in general not above 5
hours, winter and summer, all the year round.
This quantity of rest time he observes indeed at the same
time is not sufficient for health: in the country
he says both sexes grow old sooner than in the towns.
But Taking all this for fact it affords no grounds what is the inference? for supposing that 6 hours would be a quantity
insufficient for health in a Penitentiary House
with regard to a Penitentiary House? That 6
hours would not be sufficient there? By no means:
but the reverse. Whence is it that even 5 hours are insufficient
in the country of which he speaks.

1. The chief of their work is hard exercise: country
labour of all sorts, and that carried on during the
hottest season. The winter months he acknowledges
wold be a relief to them: but they so hard is their
work in the summer months that the relief afforded
by the winter is not sufficient.

2. This mode of life he m speaks of as being common
to both sexes and all ages. More sleep is required, at least thought
to

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Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	081	Info in main headings field	distrib.
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
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