[BOOK][B] Panopticon: or, The inspection-house. Containing the idea of a new principle of construction applicable to any sort of establishment, in which persons of any …

J Bentham - 1791 - books.google.com
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MORALS reformed-health preſerved—industry invigorated-inftruction diffuſedpublic burthens
lightened-Economy feated as it were upon a rock-the Gordian knot of the Poor-Laws not cut
but untied-all by a fimple idea in Architecture! Thus much I ventured to ſay on laying down
the pen-and thus much I ſhould perhaps have faid on taking it up, if at that early period I had
ſeen the whole of the way before me.—A new mode of obtaining power, of mind over mind,
in a quantity hitherto without example: and that, to a degree equally without example …
MORALS reformed-health preſerved—industry invigorated-inftruction diffuſedpublic burthens lightened-Economy feated as it were upon a rock-the Gordian knot of the Poor-Laws not cut but untied-all by a fimple idea in Architecture! Thus much I ventured to ſay on laying down the pen-and thus much I ſhould perhaps have faid on taking it up, if at that early period I had ſeen the whole of the way before me.—A new mode of obtaining power, of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example: and that, to a degree equally without example, fecured by whoever chooſes to have it ſo, againſt abuſe.--Such is the engine: fuch the work that may be done with it. How far the expectations thus held out have been fulfilled, the Reader will decide.
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