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Letter I. Idea of the Inspection Principle.
Dear xxxx Crecheff in White Russia xxxxxx 1787
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I observed t' other day, in of one of your English papers,the James Chronicle,
an advertisement relative to of a pamphlet on the subject of a House of Correction,
therein spoken of, as intended for xxxxxxxxxx.the County of Middlesex. It occurred to me, that
the Plan of a Building, lately contrived by my Brother, for purposes in some respects
similar, and which, under the Name of the Inspection House, or the
Elaboratory, he is about erecting here, might afford some hints for the above
Establishment. (a) I have accordingly obtained some Drawings, relative to it, which
I here inclose: Indeed I look upon it as capable of applications of the most
extensive nature; and that for reasons which you will soon perceive.—
To say all in one word, it will be found applicable, I think without
exception, to all establishments whatsoever, in which, within a space not too
large to be covered or commanded by buildings, a number of persons are meant
to be left kept under inspection. No matter how different, or even opposite the
the purpose: whether it be, that of punishing the incorrigible guarding the
insane. reforming the vitious,
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