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Mr A. has just been with us: it has turned out as
I expected. The Panopticon idea has been if not absolutely spoilt
by him, I hope but at least very much impaired. The plan much
more complicated than necessary, consequently much more expensive,
and not a penny of the extra expence that it is not much
the worse for. In ours that you saw all five stories of cells are
inspected from one of Lodge. In Mr Adam's the five taken
fewer than three stories of Lodge to inspect them. In Mr A.'s
were the whole window circumference is as it is in ours , there would still be a
miserable want of light: for next to their Lodge there is a ring of an intermediate
area or well, beyond that a ring of Chapel, then a ring of working rooms
beyond that a ring of passage, lastly a ring of bedrooms, and all
that before you come to the external light which through all is to light
the Lodge. In these Bedrooms Mr. A. owns that the Prisoners
will not be subject perfectly if at all to inspection: if they are not, then neither Is that a violation it remains to be
of the principle in its very essence is the only fruit of that additional / / /
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