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the habit of rendering each other mutual services, sympathy
& other dispositions favourable to reformation. Then will
speedily There will gradually come to be formed the relation
of master & pupil, reward for instruction & emulation
in learning: a sentiment of honour and self-esteem
will be among the first fruits of industry. Ideas of
instruction of learning & legitimate acquisition will
by degree supersede those of th abandonment to their
passions & fraudulent gains. All this flows from the
very nature of the establishment.
Why should those who not the prisoners when in
a state of al celibacy be permitted to intermarry. It
would operate as a powerful spur to those that aimed
at attaining the reward & who could merit it only
by their orderly conduct & industry.
A further advantage would accrue from the
division with classes - namely mutual responsibility.
It is not less natural than just to say to them-
"You live together, to you act in concert, you have it
in your power to prevent or at least to denounce
offences, if & if you have not done so you are accomplices".
Thus then the Prisoners themselves are converted
into Guards & inspectors. Every class in every class
is interested in the good conduct of his companions.
If any one of them should be remarkable render itself
conspicuous by its distinguished orderly behaviour it
might be advantageous to of use to bestow upon it some
mark of honour some token of approbation which
should be visible to all. By such means the continent
of honour might be made to enter & dwell in the
abode of infamy.
3 4. Instruction. Indigence ignorance and crimes
of are very near akin akin. By instructing that
part of the prisoners that are not still capable of
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