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case in my former letter with the clearness which I
could have wished. But, my Lord, though the loss
of 5 to the amount of £5,000 in the shape of a
penalty is but imaginary, a loss to an indefinite
amount which without any improbability may
rise not only to that amount sum but to a much greater
is a result which I may venture to state as <del.one result much more
probable that the actual exaction of any such penalty
even if incurred would be. In an undertaking of
such magnitude the risk being so great, the profit in
case of success ought to be and naturally will be in proportion.
My allowance for the 10900 prisoners
m is £12 a head, making 12000 a year:
if then I can maintain them for that money,
which the a large stock of experience that I have
collected in that view leaves me no little room to doubt,
calls it follows that whatever their labour may produce is will be so much clear gain.
If they the amount of this be upon an average 1d a day, a
head, this makes £15,000 a year making after allowance
made for sickness and days of rest.
in that point of view it is seems necessary for met o state
to your Lordship that the Colonel my brother
has contrived and in some very important instances of those the most difficult already reduced
to a system of inventions for performing by
the help of Machinery and without the necessity of either goodwill
or d the smallest particle of skill or
dexterity on the part of the greater proportion
of
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Jeremy Bentham |
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