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XVII Improved Prisons In all receptacles without exception (the demonstration
is a strict one , and comes within the
province of mathematics — yes , my Lord, even
"of arithmetic and its calculations") the greater
the space contained , the less the proportion
of matter required for the containing of that
space . By the same powerful cause , the effect
is influenced in a variety of other ways :
amongst others , by diminution of the number
and expence of inspecting eyes . If this be true
of all such concerns in general , it will be more
particularly true in proportion as reluctance,
or unpractised awkwardness , prevail among
the working hands . —

Among the variety of rocks on any one of
which Mr Pitt's ever memorable Poor plan
would have split , was that of the smallness
of the scale . Not certainly of the tout ensemble —
that was as large as it could be — but of each
component establishment , as distinguished by
a separate mass of building and a separate
set of officers . Had the scale been as large as
that of the average of the existing Suffolk
Industry Houses , the estimated expence for the whole

Identifier: | JB/116/610/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	610	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d13
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	cw 1799
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. abbit lees
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38143
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