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Preface.

I must here upon have recourse a second time to example:
and I need not wander far to find one.(a) Mr
Howard, the prisoners' friend, (and who in an age
of devotion would have been their Saint), bas Mr Howard by
a course of the most hazardous and painful researches
that perhaps it ever enter'd into the heart
of a man not spurred by fanaticism to engage in,
has set on foot a reformation in our police, for which
the latest posterity will be bound to bless him. –
Would it have subdued his resolution? – (I hope not.
(Certainly it would have had no great tendency to
fortify it) had he been told by some statesman
of acknowledged merit and whose example would might
keep despondency in countenance, that prisons were
very dangerous and unwholesome places for a man
to visit; that to establish any general and consistent
plan for their regulation was a novelty;
that there might indeed be some abuses in them;
but that "it had been as always found much easier to censure
"than to correct", and that it⊞ ⊞ "any plan of extensive reformation" on this head could not but prove
"a work of much nicety and embarassment in the
"hands of even of those who possess a competent
"knowledge of the subject, with the additional advantage
"of Parliamentary habits and talents."

For instance to the writer whose words I am Let me not be condemned for dwelling upon words:
for to make a from syllables from such a pen will have their weight. Let us rather entreat

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