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Letter VI. Advantages of the Plan. 160

I flatter myself there can now be little doubt, of the plan's
possessing the fundamental advantages I have been attributing to it. I mean the apparent
omni presence of the Inspector (if divines will allow me the expression) combined
with the extreme facility of his real presence.

A collateral advantage it possesses, and on the score of frugality a
very material one, is that which respects the number of the inspectors requisite. If
this plan required more than another; the additional number would form an objection,
which, were the difference to a certain degree considerable, might rise so high as to be
conclusive:. So far from it, that a greater multitude than ever were yet lodged in
one house might be inspected by one a single person. For the trouble of inspection is
diminished in no less proportion than the strictness of inspection is encreased.

Another very important advantage, whatever purpose the plan
may be applied to, particularly where it is applied to the severest and most coercive
purposes, is, that the Under Keepers or Inspectors, the servants and subordinates
of every kind, will be under the same irresistible controul with respect to the Head
Keeper or Inspector, as the prisoners or other persons to be governed are with respect
to them. On the common plans, what means, what possibility, has the
prisoner, of appealing to the humanity of the principal for redress, against the neglect
or oppression of subordinates in that rigid sphere, but the few oppertunities
which, in a crowded prison, the most conscientious Keeper can afford, but the none at
none at all, which many a Keeper thinks fit, to give them? How different
would their lot be upon this plan ? ! In no instance could his subordinates either
perform

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