JB/550/161/002

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Letter VI. Advantages of the Plan.

In mentioning Inspectors and Superintendants who on are such
by office, I must not overlook that system of Inspection, which, however
little heeded, will not be the less useful and efficacious: I mean
the part which individuals may be supposed disposed to take in the
business, without intending, perhaps, or even without thinking of,
any other effects of their visits, than the gratification of their own
particular curiosity. What the Inspector's or Keeper's Family are
with respect to him, that, and more, will these spontaneous visitors
be to the Superintendant: assistants, deputies, in so far
as he is faithfull, witnesses and Judges, should he ever be unfaithfull,
to his the trust. So as they are but there, what the motives were
that drew them thither, is perfectly immaterial: whether the relieving
of their anxieties by the affecting prospect of their respective
friends and relatives thus detained in durance, or merely the
satisfying that general curiosity, which an establishment on various
accounts so interesting to human feelings, may naturally
be expected to excite.

You see, I take for granted as a matter of course, that
under the necessary regulations for preventing interruption and
disturbance, the doors of these establishments will be, as without
very special reasons to the contrary, the doors of all publick
establishments ought to be, thrown wide open to the body of the curious
at large:—the great open committee of the tribunal of the world.—And

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