Panopticon Or the InspectionHouse Author:Jeremy Bentham General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1791 Original Publisher: Payne Subjects: Social Science / Criminology Social Science / Penology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book y... more »ou get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PREFACE. MORALS reformed -- health preferv- ed -- indnflry invigorated -- iiiftruflioit diffused -- public burthens lightened -- Economy feated as it were upon a rock -- the Got-din knot of the Poof-Laws not cut but untied-- all by a Jimple idea in Architecture!- Thus much 1 ventured to fay on laying down the pen -- and thus much I fhou'. J perhaps have faid on taking it up, if at that early period I had feen the whole of the way before me. -- A new mode of obtaining power, powerpower of mind over mind, in a quantity hidierto without example: and that, to a degree equally without example, fecured by whoever choofes to have it fo, againft abufe. -- 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. The Letters which compofe the body of this tract, were written at Crecheff in Ruflia, and from thence fent to England ii the year 1/87, much about the fame time with the Defence of Usury. They Were addrefled to a particular perfon, with a view to a particular eftablifliment then in contemplation, (intelligence of which had found its way to me through the medium of an Englijth newfpaper) and without anyany immediate or very determinate view to general publication. The attention of the public in Ireland having been drawn to one of the fubjedts to which they relate by the notice given not long ago by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, of a difpofition on the part of Government there, to make trial of the Penitentiary fyftem...« less