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B.25.Ch.123
that shall place the patient in a situation
in which he will find it impossible to gratify his
vicious propensities and where every surrounding
object will tend to give birth to habits and
inclinations of a nature altogether opposite. The
principal instrument which can be employed on this
occasion is perpetual superintendance - Delinquents
are a peculiar race of beings who require unremitted
inspection - Their weakness consists in yielding to
the seductions of the passing moment - Their minds
are weak and disordered & though their disease is neither
so clearly marked nor so incurable as that of idiots
and lunatics, like these they require to be kept
under restraints and they cannot without danger
be left to themselves.-
By means of Under the safeguard of this continual Inspection
without which success is not to be expected
the Penitentiary House described includes all the
causes which are calculated to destroy the seeds of
vice and to rear those of virtue.
1. Labour - It is admitted that constraint so far instead
of augmenting inspiring a taste for labour is calculated to
augment the avertion to it. It must however be
recollected that in this case labour is the only resource
against ennui; that being imposed upon all, it will be
encouraged by example and rendered more agreeable by being
carried on in the company of others; it will be followed by
immediate reward and the individual being allowed a share
in the profits it will in measure lose the character of and
servitude, by his being rendered in measure the a partner
in the Concern.- Those who formerly understood no
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