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It may not be of use that, among all these particulars <add>you have seen</add>, it<lb/> | It may not be of use that, among all these particulars <add>you have seen</add>, it<lb/> | ||
should be clearly understood, what circumstances are, and what are not, essential<lb/> | should be clearly understood, what circumstances are, and what are not, essential<lb/> | ||
to the plan. The essence of it consists, <add>then</add>, in the <hi rend="underline">centrality</hi> of the Inspector's situation<lb/>combined with the well known and most effectual contrivances for <hi rend="underline">seeing</hi><lb/><hi rend="underline">without being seen</hi>. As to the <hi rend="underline">general form</hi> of the building, the most com<add>m</add>odious<lb/>for most purposes seems to be the circular: but this is not an absolutely essential<lb/> | to the plan. The essence of it consists, <add>then</add>, in the <hi rend="underline">centrality</hi> of the Inspector's situation<lb/>combined with the well known and most effectual contrivances for <hi rend="underline">seeing</hi><lb/><hi rend="underline">without being seen</hi>. As to the <hi rend="underline">general form</hi> of the building, the most com<add>m</add>odious<lb/>for most purposes seems to be the circular: but this is not an absolutely essential<lb/>circumstance. Of all figures, however, this, you will observe, is the only one that<lb/>affords a perfect view, and the same view, of an indefinite number of apartments<lb/>of the same dimensions:—that affords a spot from which, without any change<lb/>of situation, a many may survey, in the same perfection, the whole number,<lb/>and without so much as a change of posture, the half of the <add>whole</add> <del>same</del> number, at<lb/>the same time:—that, within a boundary of a given extent, contains the greatest<lb/> | ||
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Letter V. Essential points of the Plan.
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It may not be of use that, among all these particulars you have seen, it
should be clearly understood, what circumstances are, and what are not, essential
to the plan. The essence of it consists, then, in the centrality of the Inspector's situation
combined with the well known and most effectual contrivances for seeing
without being seen. As to the general form of the building, the most commodious
for most purposes seems to be the circular: but this is not an absolutely essential
circumstance. Of all figures, however, this, you will observe, is the only one that
affords a perfect view, and the same view, of an indefinite number of apartments
of the same dimensions:—that affords a spot from which, without any change
of situation, a many may survey, in the same perfection, the whole number,
and without so much as a change of posture, the half of the whole same number, at
the same time:—that, within a boundary of a given extent, contains the greatest
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