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Click Here To Edit 33 Letter VIII. Uses - Penitentiary - houses - Reformation. 165
In my last, I endeavoured to state to you the advantages
which a receptacle, upon a plan of the proposed building, seemed
to promise, in its application to places of confinement, considered merely
in that view. Give me leave now to consider it as applicable to the joint
purposes of punishment, reformation, and pecuniary economy.
That in regard to persons of the discription of those to
whom punishments of the nature in question are destined, solitude is
in its nature subservient to the purpose of reformation, seems to be as little
disputed, as its tendency to operate in addition to the mass of sufferance.
But, that upon this plan that purpose would be effected, at least as
compleatly as it could be on any other, you cannot but see at the
first glance, or rather you must have observed already. In the condition
of our prisoners (for so I will call them for shortness sake) you
may see the student's paradox, nunquam minus solus quam cum solus,
realized in a new way:—to the Keeper, a multitude, though not a crowd,
to themselves, they are solitary and sequestered individuals.
What is more, you will see this purpose answered more
compleatly by this plan, than it could possibly be on any other. What
degree of solitude it was proposed to reduce them to in the once intended
Penitentiary-houses, need not be consider'd: but
for one purpose, in buildings of any mode of construction that could
then and there have been in view, it would have been necessary, according
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