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10 Apr. 1802
3. Jail Imprisonments

Can imagination frame a case, in which the tendency
thus attributed to the Penitentiary establishment would be realized?

A good model example good in all its points has its use: those who
think it so will be disposed to copy it in all points.

A bad model bad in all points has its use,
those who think it such will be disposed to copy
it in all points.

A model good in some points bad in others
has its use: in such as a man the appear good
a man will be disposed to copy it: in such as appear
bad, to avoid copying it.

A Penitentiary House is after all but a species
of Gaol. If in the the Penitentiary House, having
or not having improvements in it would check stop the spirit of improvements
in the Gaols, so would any other Gaol
improved or attempted to be improved. Such improved
or attempted to be improved Gaol would in respect
of improvement be either above or below or upon
a level with any as yet unimproved Gaol: in any
one of the three cases it would have an equal tendency
to prevent the improvement of it, as the Penitentiary
House would. This argument deduced from the Dukes
portended desire of introd seeing improvement introduced into
all Gaols is therefore in effect an argument – and if it were
good for anything in the case of the Penitentiary House a
presumption and unanswerable one – against the introducing
improvement into
any one. The
reasoning in the favour of the letter
cannot be illegal measure in repugnance
to the portended
object of it.

Identifier: | JB/121/238/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1802-04-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	Not numbered
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	238	Info in main headings field	3 Jail Improvements
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	001
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