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The design was — that Convicts once sent there should
never come back again. The plan, if there had been any
such thing, about the return of Convicts, would have been
dictated either by what I call justice (in which case it would
have run counter to the design) or by the supposed profitable
injustice. On the former supposition, arrangements would have been
taken in the first place, for preventing the emigration of each
Convict before the expiration of his legal terms of punishment—
in the next place, for affording him the means of quitting the
Country immediately after — if such should be his choice: — arrangements,
if not of the positive cast, at any rate of the negative
viz: by removing from that time forwards whatever
obstacle might till then have been opposed as such to his escape.
Whatever had been the term of punishment fixed by each man's
sentence — fourteen years — between fourteen years and seven years —
seven years or any shorter term — care would have been taken at
any rate, that from and after the expiration of it, his return
should not be opposed by any positive and—factitious obstacle, the
the effect of which would be to render it more difficult from this
new spot than it used to be from the old spots, to which this
new discovered one was now substituted. —

Not to oppose, or suffer to be opposed, any obstruction to the
return of a de jure emancipated Convict — to take measures for
rendering it neither more nor less easy than under the old
system, or, if that could not be done, still easier — one or other of
those distinguishable lines of conduct would (in my humble
conception) have been the line of justice: which of them (since
no one of them was pursued) is scarce worth arguing about.

There remains the line of supposed profitable injustice —
of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	286	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 f57 / d2 f58
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37819
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