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<head>21</head><!-- aligned to the right-hand margin and in pencil --> | |||
<head>Letter 3<hi rend='superscript'>d</hi></head><!-- centred and in pencil --> | |||
<p><!-- indented -->Would your Lordship have supposed it? - It is | |||
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upon the very merits — the acknowledged or at any | |||
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rate the <sic>alledged</sic> merits , of the Penitentiary system, | |||
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in these its less perfect forms , that the hostility | |||
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to it in its more perfect form has grounded itself. | |||
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So well has the system succeeded in this and | |||
that <del>Count</del> <hi rend='underline'>Country</hi>, that for that very reason there | |||
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is to be none for <hi rend='underline'>Englan</hi>d : so well has it succeeded | |||
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upon a s<hi rend='underline'>mall scal</hi>e , that it is not to | |||
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be suffered to <sic>shew</sic> itself upon a <hi rend='underline'>large</hi> <del>one</del> <add><hi rend='underline'>scale</hi></add> : — | |||
<lb/>so well have the existing prisons succeeded at | |||
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an e<hi rend='underline'>normous</hi> rate of <sic>e<hi rend='underline'>xpenc</hi>e</sic> , that for that | |||
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very reason a still better prison is not to | |||
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be suffered to be built at a t<hi rend='underline'>enth</hi> a <hi rend='underline'>fifteenth</hi> | |||
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or a <hi rend='underline'>twentieth</hi> part of that <sic>expence</sic> . So peremptory | |||
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was the determination to cover the country with | |||
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<!-- white space --> prisons <hi rend='underline'>unthought of by Parliamen</hi>t , that | |||
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it is for that very reason it was determined not | |||
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to have the <hi rend='underline'>one</hi> prison , that had so long ago and | |||
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so repeatedly been <hi rend='underline'>prescribed by Parliamen</hi>t . — | |||
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18-May-2012: under construction by Diane Folan. Please do not amend.
21
Letter 3d
Would your Lordship have supposed it? - It is
upon the very merits — the acknowledged or at any
rate the alledged merits , of the Penitentiary system,
in these its less perfect forms , that the hostility
to it in its more perfect form has grounded itself.
So well has the system succeeded in this and
that Count Country, that for that very reason there
is to be none for England : so well has it succeeded
upon a small scale , that it is not to
be suffered to shew itself upon a large one scale : —
so well have the existing prisons succeeded at
an enormous rate of expence , that for that
very reason a still better prison is not to
be suffered to be built at a tenth a fifteenth
or a twentieth part of that expence . So peremptory
was the determination to cover the country with
prisons unthought of by Parliament , that
it is for that very reason it was determined not
to have the one prison , that had so long ago and
so repeatedly been prescribed by Parliament . —
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Identifier: | JB/116/618/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116. |
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116 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
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618 |
letter 3d |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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recto |
d21 |
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john herbert koe |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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