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he does what sort of persons Judges are, that makes it
necessary for him this legislator to find a remedy on his own providence against the weakness.
on his own providence Judges (such are the their prejudices)
they have been brought up in) would conform be guided
by the intentions of would be governed by the legislation: they would send to
this Panopticon, the Convicts whom upon looking at the Act of who,
they found it was the intention of the legislature they intended, should
be not there. The Judges would neither know nor
care any thing about the capacity of Lord Belgrave,
or the job designed for the friend of Mr Baldwin. The
Duke has indeed made known given his reasons why Convicts should not
be sent from the Gaols to the Panopticon: and the Judges I mean the
baleful and witchcraft powers which the Panopticon would exercise
over the prosperity of the Gaols: and the Judges
in virtue of the latitude possessed by them as above might would
have it in their power to be guided by their reasons. But the Judges are perverse
and, would not be guided by those reasons: ⊞ ⊞ Little nothing would they know – and fill as little would they can if they did know about the springs and fountains from which this profound system of legislation was devolved: little nothing would they ever know about the caprice of Lord Belgrave, or the job designed for the friend of Mr Baldwin. Besides these private reasons admitting could it
even to that they it have been supposed that they would be guided by these reasons, they might be have been trusted
to their own discretion: but they will not and therefore
it is that it becomes necessary for him to do by them what
he to do – which is – to life their hands.
Guided by the reasons he has deployed, Convinced, in his own person by these reasons, he has defer
settled with his friends, that the Panopticon, if it
was to be established at all, should have no not have room in it
capable of holding any of these convicts: and when what the
Panopticon will not hold thens, (says the thinking Statesman to the signing Statesman) let the Judges put into it
if they can. Thus armed he is too hard for Parliament
he is too hard for the Judges – he is too hard for every body
– but his friends. The supposed wisdom of the law – that
imaginary wisdom, which in both branches of it, legislature and judicial, is in his
eyes but foolishness, could have stood in the way of his own real
wisdom. He calls in therefore a power which is superior to all such legal wisdom
– the power of physical necessity – and departs a there it is that he triumphs over all wisdom and all law.

Identifier: | JB/121/394/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1802-04-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	394	Info in main headings field	Dispensing power
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	D8 / E2 / F30*
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::Quere an inserendum? [note in Bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	001
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