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Letter 3d
XVII Improved Prisons In all receptacles without exception (the demonstration
is a strict one , and comes within the
province of mathematics — yes , my Lord, even
"of arithmetic and its calculations") the greater
the space contained , the less the proportion
of matter required for the containing of that
space . By the same powerful cause , the effect
is influenced in a variety of other ways :
amongst others , by diminution of the number
and expence of inspecting eyes . If this be true
of all such concerns in general , it will be more
particularly true in proportion as reluctance,
or unpractised awkwardness , prevail among
the working hands . —
Among the variety of rocks on any one of
which Mr Pitt's ever memorable Poor plan
would have split , was that of the smallness
of the scale . Not certainly of the tout ensemble —
that was as large as it could be — but of each
component establishment , as distinguished by
a separate mass of building and a separate
set of officers . Had the scale been as large as
that of the average of the existing Suffolk
Industry Houses , the estimated expence for the whole
Identifier: | JB/116/610/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116. |
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116 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
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610 |
letter 3d |
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001 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
1 |
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recto |
d13 |
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john herbert koe |
cw 1799 |
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c. abbit lees |
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1799 |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
38143 |
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