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Objection 2. As upon your plan, by night as well as by day
several males will co-exist in the same apartment, inequalities
of the sexual appetite will, without any
wilful neglect on your part unavoidably take place.
Therefore for 600 prisoners, for night residence alone there
can not be more than 600 separate apartments.
Answer 1. If I do not at any time make it plain
to the satisfaction of the appropriate judges on their
view of the spot, that in my Panopticon, consistently
with moral probability, no such incident can be at the
time in question deemed to have taken place, or can be
about to take place, let me though it were on that sole ground,
be dismissed.
N.B. With Honourable Gentlemen this I am well assured
was the grand argument relied upon and employed, at
least in whispers and significant looks, against Panopticon,
and the system of economy dependent on it.
For in what manner soever men are grouped in the
day time, all violence and attempt to escape being
precluded by actual and unremitted inspection, what
possible objection, unless it be this can there be to the
sleeping hour being passed in the same grouping?
Why in an unremittingly inspected prison more than
on board an uninspected apartment in a ship?
At sleeping hours in the way of mischievous discourse in
ever shape of all the things that men can say to one
another
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