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Letter XII. Checks on the Contractor.
interest which, to get the better of so many adverse motive, must have been
a pritty strong one, how could you have ensured a man's doing a single stroke
of work? and, even with such interest, how could you have ensured his not
doing all sorts of mischief? As to mischief, I observed to you, under
the article of safe-custody, how easy their keeper might make himself upon
that score: and as to work, I flatter myself, you perceive already, that
there need be no great fear of a want of inducements adequate to that
purpose.
If after all it should be insisted, upon that some power
of correction would be absolutely necessary, for instance in the case
of a prisoner's assaulting a keeper or a teacher at the time of receiving
his food or his instruction, such (a case which, though never very
probable, would be always possible) such a power, though less
necessary here than any where else, might, on the other hand, be given
with less danger. What tyrrany could subsist, under such a
perfect facility of complaint as is the result of so perfect a facility
of inspection? But on this head a word is sufficient, after what
I have said in considering the general heads of advantage dependent
on this principle. Other checks assistant to this are obvious enough.
A correction-book might be kept, in which every instance of
chastisement, with the cause for which it was administered, might
be entered upon record: any the slightest act of punishment not
entered to be considered as a lawless injury. If these checks be not enough
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