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<p>In my last, I <sic>endeavoured</sic> to state to you the advantages<lb/> | <p>In my last, I <sic>endeavoured</sic> to state to you the advantages<lb/> | ||
which a receptacle, upon a plan of <del><gap/><gap/></del> <add>the</add>proposed building, seemed<lb/>to promise, in its application to places of <hi rend="underline">confinement</hi>, considered merely<lb/>in that view. Give me leave now to consider it as applicable to the joint<lb/>purposes of <hi rend="underline">punishment</hi>, <hi rend="underline">reformation</hi>, and <hi rend="underline">pecuniary economy</hi>.</p> | which a receptacle, upon a plan of <del><gap/><gap/></del> <add>the</add>proposed building, seemed<lb/>to promise, in its application to places of <hi rend="underline">confinement</hi>, considered merely<lb/>in that view. Give me leave now to consider it as applicable to the joint<lb/>purposes of <hi rend="underline">punishment</hi>, <hi rend="underline">reformation</hi>, and <hi rend="underline">pecuniary economy</hi>.</p> | ||
<p>That in regard to persons of the <sic>discription</sic> of thou to<lb/>whom punishments of the nature in question are destined, solitude is<lb/>in its nature subservient to the purpose of reformation, seems to be as little<lb/>disputed, as its tendency to operate in addition to the mass of sufferance.<lb/>But, that upon this plan that purpose would be effected, at least as<lb/><sic>compleatly</sic> as it could be on any other, you cannot but see <del><gap/></del> at the<lb/>first glance, or rather you must have observed already. In the condition<lb/>of <hi rend="underline">our</hi> prisoners (for so I will call them for shortness sake) you<lb/>may see the student's paradox, | <p>That in regard to persons of the <sic>discription</sic> of thou to<lb/>whom punishments of the nature in question are destined, solitude is<lb/>in its nature subservient to the purpose of reformation, seems to be as little<lb/>disputed, as its tendency to operate in addition to the mass of sufferance.<lb/>But, that upon this plan that purpose would be effected, at least as<lb/><sic>compleatly</sic> as it could be on any other, you cannot but see <del><gap/></del> at the<lb/>first glance, or rather you must have observed already. In the condition<lb/>of <hi rend="underline">our</hi> prisoners (for so I will call them for shortness sake) you<lb/>may see the student's paradox, <hi rend="underline">nunquam minus solus quam cum solus</hi>,<lb/> realized in a new life:—to the Keeper, a <hi rend="underline">multitude</hi>, though not a <hi rend="underline">crowd</hi>,<lb/>to themselves, they are <hi rend="underline">solitary</hi> and <hi rend="underline">sequestered</hi> individuals. | ||
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<p>What is more, you will see | <p>What is more, you will see this purpose answered more<lb/> | ||
<hi rend="underline">compleatly</hi> by this plan, than it could possibly be on any other. What<lb/>degree of solitude it was proposed to reduce them to in the once intended<lb/> | <hi rend="underline">compleatly</hi> by this plan, than it could possibly be on any other. What<lb/>degree of solitude it was proposed to reduce them to in the once intended<lb/> | ||
<hi rend="underline">Penitentiary-houses</hi>, <del><gap/></del> need not < | <hi rend="underline">Penitentiary-houses</hi>, <del><gap/></del> need not <add>be consider'd:</add><del><gap/><gap/><gap/></del> but<lb/>for one purpose, in buildings of any mode of construction that could<lb/>then and there have been in view, it would have been necessary, according<lb/></p> | ||
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Click Here To Edit 33 Letter VIII. Uses - Penitentiary - houses - Reformation. 165
In my last, I endeavoured to state to you the advantages
which a receptacle, upon a plan of theproposed building, seemed
to promise, in its application to places of confinement, considered merely
in that view. Give me leave now to consider it as applicable to the joint
purposes of punishment, reformation, and pecuniary economy.
That in regard to persons of the discription of thou to
whom punishments of the nature in question are destined, solitude is
in its nature subservient to the purpose of reformation, seems to be as little
disputed, as its tendency to operate in addition to the mass of sufferance.
But, that upon this plan that purpose would be effected, at least as
compleatly as it could be on any other, you cannot but see at the
first glance, or rather you must have observed already. In the condition
of our prisoners (for so I will call them for shortness sake) you
may see the student's paradox, nunquam minus solus quam cum solus,
realized in a new life:—to the Keeper, a multitude, though not a crowd,
to themselves, they are solitary and sequestered individuals.
What is more, you will see this purpose answered more
compleatly by this plan, than it could possibly be on any other. What
degree of solitude it was proposed to reduce them to in the once intended
Penitentiary-houses, need not be consider'd: but
for one purpose, in buildings of any mode of construction that could
then and there have been in view, it would have been necessary, according
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