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Letter VIII. Uses - Penitentiary - houses. Reformation.
ing to the express regulations of that plan, that the law of solitude should be
dispensed with: I mean, so often as the prisoners were to receive the benefits
of attendance on Divine service. But in my Brother's circular penitentiary-houses,
they might receive there/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 destined to devotion: no quarelling
nor confederatings, nor plottings to escape: nor yet any whips or fetters
to prevent it. The whole building might receive (why should it not?)
in proper form, the properties of a Chapel. The Minister, stationed
in the central Lodge, shall be, and if you please, without
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