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' | 11<lb/><p>my Brother's circular penitentiary houses, they might receive these<lb/>benefits, in every circumstance, without stirring from their cells. No<lb/>thronging, nor jostling, in the way between the scene of work and the scene of<lb/>destined to devotion. No quarrelling, nor confederating, for plotting to<lb/>escape: nor yet any whisper or fetters to prevent it. The whole building<lb/>might receive (why should it not?) in proper form the properties of a<lb/>Chap<del>p</del>el. The Minister, stationed in the central Lodge, shall be heard, and<lb/>if you please, without being so much as seen. If the Chap<del>p</del>el of Saint<lb/>Stephen (that great sink of corruption, were we to believe so many of those<lb/>who should be best acquainted with it)<hi rend="superscript">x</hi><lb/>applied for so many hundred years to purpose which, were they ever so<lb/>rigidly adhered to, are but political at best, I see not how the reforming<lb/><lb/>purposes of the penal discipline should profane the <hi rend="underline">sacred</hi> <del><gap/></del> character,<lb/>if conferred on penitentiary houses. For surely, since the fall of our first<lb/>Parents, in no one spot could ever so great a measure of innocence have<lb/>been found as in this, at least if that be innocence which is the result of<lb/>impotence. No whisperings, no laughings, no gossipings, no oglings here.<lb/>Religion on the seventh day, as labour on the six, would find for once an<lb/>assembly, whom no distractions would render unattentive to her voice.</p> | ||
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my Brother's circular penitentiary houses, they might receive these
benefits, in every circumstance, without stirring from their cells. No
thronging, nor jostling, in the way between the scene of work and the scene of
destined to devotion. No quarrelling, nor confederating, for plotting to
escape: nor yet any whisper or fetters to prevent it. The whole building
might receive (why should it not?) in proper form the properties of a
Chappel. The Minister, stationed in the central Lodge, shall be heard, and
if you please, without being so much as seen. If the Chappel of Saint
Stephen (that great sink of corruption, were we to believe so many of those
who should be best acquainted with it)x
applied for so many hundred years to purpose which, were they ever so
rigidly adhered to, are but political at best, I see not how the reforming
purposes of the penal discipline should profane the sacred character,
if conferred on penitentiary houses. For surely, since the fall of our first
Parents, in no one spot could ever so great a measure of innocence have
been found as in this, at least if that be innocence which is the result of
impotence. No whisperings, no laughings, no gossipings, no oglings here.
Religion on the seventh day, as labour on the six, would find for once an
assembly, whom no distractions would render unattentive to her voice.
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