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employment is — fouling the ship, or, to | employment is — fouling the ship, or, to | ||
speak the Contractor's<lb/> | speak the Contractor's<lb/> | ||
language, "<hi rend="underline">keeping it clean</hi>": a task easy enough<lb/> | |||
to 7 or 8, impossible to 9 or <unclear>800.</unclear> <del>Their mor-</del> <add>The ship is<lb/> | |||
kept for them to clean; and they are kept to clean it.</add> This mortality<lb/> | |||
he calls "<hi rend="underline">health</hi>". | |||
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There is reason for not loving time. On board on of
the Hulks, the prisoners are perishing between 1/5 and
1/6th of them in a year — I have counted. It is
the habitual rate — I speak from the Reports. Their
employment is — fouling the ship, or, to
speak the Contractor's
language, "keeping it clean": a task easy enough
to 7 or 8, impossible to 9 or 800. Their mor- The ship is
kept for them to clean; and they are kept to clean it. This mortality
he calls "health".
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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