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Letter 5th.
It may be of use that, among all the particulars you have seen, these particulars, it should be
clearly understood, what circumstances are, and what are not, essential to the plan
with the well known and most effectual contrivances, for seeing without being
seen. As to the general form of the building, the most commodious for most purposes
seems to be the circular; but this is not an absolutely essential circumstance.
Of all figures however, this, you will observe, is the only one that affords a perfect
view, and the same view, of an indefinite number of apartments of the same dimensions: —
that affords a spot, from which, without any change of situation, a man may survey
in the same perfection, the whole number, at the same time: — that, within a boundary
of a given extent, contains the greatest quantity of room: — that places the center at the
least distance from the light: — that gives the Cells the most width at the part where,
on account of the light, most width may, for the purpose of work, be wanted — and that
reduces to the greatest possible shortness, the path taken by the Inspector in every
passing from each part of the field of Inspection to every other.
You will please to observe, that, though perhaps it is the most
important point, that the persons to be inspected should always feel themselves as
if under inspection, at least as having a great chance of being so, yet it is not by
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