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Divines will allow me
the expression / combined
with the extreme facility
of his real presence.
A collateral advantage
it possesses, and
on the score of frugality
a very material one, is
that which respects the
number of the Inspectors
requisite. If this
plan required more than
another, the additional
number would form an
objection, which, were the
difference to a certain
degree considerable, might
rise so high as to be
conclusive. So far from it,
that a greater multitude
than ever were yet lodged
in one house might
be inspected by a single
person. For the trouble
of inspection is diminished
in no less
proportion than the
strictness of inspection is
increased. I
Another very important
advantage, whatever
purposes the
plan may be applied to
doing so. It presents an answer, and that a satisfactory one, to one of the
most puzzling of political questions, Quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? And
the fulfilling of his, as well as their, duty would be rendered so much easier
than it can evr have been hitherto, so might, and so should, any departure from
it be punished with the more inflexible severity. It is this circumstance that
renders the influence of this plan to less beneficial to what is called Liberty
than to necessary coercion: not less powerfull, as a controul upon subordinate
power, than as a curb to delinquency; as a shield to innocence, than as a
scourge to guilt.
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