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each person should actually be in that predicament, during every instant of Time.
This being impossible, the next thing to be wished for is, that, at every instant
seeing reason to believe as much, and not being able to satisfy himself to the
contrary, he should conceive himself to be so. This point you will immediately
see, is most compleatly secured by my Brother's plan: and, I think, it
will appear equally manifest, that it cannot be composed by any other: or
to speak more properly, that if it be compassed by any other, it can only be
in proportion as such other may approach to this.—
To cut the matter as short as possible, To cut the matter as short as possible, I will therefore consider it at once
in its application to such purposes as, being most complicated, will serve to
exemplify the greatest force and variety of precautionary contrivance. Such
are those which have suggested the idea of Penitentiary-houses: in which
in which the objects of Safe-custody, Confinement, Solitude, Forced Labour,
and Instruction, we all of them to be kept in view. If all these objects can be
accomplished together, of course with at least equal certainty and
facility may any lesser number of them.
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