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by experience. I think you will not find it stale; but its freshness
is a circumstance, that may not give it an equal relish to every
palate.
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If the plan should be got in time to be laid before your
brethren, the Honourable Gentleman in the chair and the rest of the
Magistrates for the County of Middlesex, and you should think
fit to trouble them with it, we should be glad to be apprised of their
sentiments, and, should it meet their approbation, no pains will be
grudged in the communicating any further hints, which this
remote corner of the world may appear capable of affording, towards
the correction and completion of it. I am
with all duty and respect
Honoured for
Your affectionate
Jeremy Bentham.
What would you say, if, by the gradual adoption and
diversified application of this single principle, you should
see a new scene of things spread itself over the face of
civilized society? — morals reformed, health preserved,
industry invigorated, instruction diffused, public burthens lightened,
economy seated as it were upon a rock, the gordian
knot of the Poor-Laws not cut but untied — all by a simple
idea in architecture!(a) — I am etc.
Note
(a) This plan did not come happened not to come in time for the
particular purpose it was designed for.
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