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to be required by children than by adults: the damage
done to their constitutions may therefore be owing principally
to their being in regard to this article
too early.

3. In the last place the quantity the people in question
allow themselves is but 5 hours; the quantity proposed
for the Penitentiary House is 6 hours: 1/5 as much
again: the effect of such an addition can not but be
very considerable.

A plain proof that in the 5 hours, the more
deficiency of any can not be very great is that it
is submitted to voluntarily, and that by the generality
of the people. What is pretty clear therefore is that
the habitual privation, such as it is, is not attended with
any present and habitual uneasiness. After all, other admitting
the fact, viz: that t in the country part of the world in question
those w the inhabitants of men are life is shorter in the country than in
towns, who can say that what proof is there that the difference owing altogether
or so much as in any degree to this cause?

Upon the whole therefore the conclusion seems to be,
that as five hours sleep is as much as people
who are at liberty and who are employ'd the greatest
part of the year in hard work allow themselves, six
hours will be quite enough to allow to criminals who
used not be put to it is not proposed should be put to labour
of equal severity in any part of the year, much less in the hottest
season.

Identifier: | JB/119/081/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	081	Info in main headings field	distrib.
Image	002	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	floyd & co
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39592
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