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He derived no little comfort from the thought; for to the antipathy thus engendered in the 'best of kings' he attributed the subsequent failure of his Panopticon scheme. Ibid. xi. 95. Works, x. 54. Ibid. i. 268 n. Works, x. 121. Ibid. i. 227.
Meanwhile Bentham, meditating profoundly upon the Panopticon, had at last found out that he had begun at the wrong end. His reasoning had been thrown away upon the huge dead weight of official indifference, or worse than indifference. Why did they not accept the means for producing the greatest happiness of the greatest number? Because statesmen did not desire the end. And why not?
They regarded the proposal that children should be partly taught by other children instead of being wholly taught by adults as a kind of scientific discovery which would enormously simplify and cheapen education. Believers in the 'Panopticon' saw in it another patent method of raising the general level of intelligence. But the real question was between church and dissent.
The Panopticon Correspondence, in the eleventh volume, gives fragments from a 'history of the war between Jeremy Bentham and George III., written by Bentham in 1830-31, and selections from a voluminous correspondence. Works, x. 301. Ibid. xi. 167. Works, viii. 440. Works, xi. 102-3. Ibid. x. 400. Works, xi. 144. For its later history see Memorials of Millbank, by Arthur Griffiths. 2 vols., 1875.
Entering the palace, the visitor was unable to shake off the feeling of perplexity caused by the extraordinary spectacles to be witnessed within its walls. The most startling surprises were the bottomless well, the cave, the monster kaleidoscope, and the panopticon. A touching scene, produced in wax, represented the execution of the unfortunate Queen Marie Antoinette.
A Protest against Law Taxes, printed in 1793, was published in 1795 together with Supply without Burthen, or Escheat vice Taxation, written in 1794. During this period Bentham was also occupied with the Panopticon, and some writings refer to it. About 1802 Bentham returned to jurisprudence.
Probably he regarded New Lanark as a kind of Panopticon. Owen had not as yet become a prophet of Socialism. Another set of controversies in which Mill and his friends took an active part, started Bentham in a whole series of speculations. Brougham, Mackintosh, Ricardo, William Allen, and Place were all interested in this undertaking.
Joanna Baillie. "Here," said Lady Bentham, wife of General Sir Samuel Bentham, the originator of that Panopticon, which was the germ of all our prison discipline as well as of all penitentiary improvements, the world over, "Here is an autograph you will think worth having, I am sure, after what I have heard you say of the writer, and of her tragedies, and I want you to see her"; handing me, as she spoke, the following brief note, written upon a bit of coarse paper about six inches by four.
His chief authority for more merciful methods is Beccaria; and it is worth remarking, for reasons which will appear hereafter, that he does not in this connection refer to Bentham, although he speaks enthusiastically of Bentham's model prison, the Panopticon. Colquhoun shows how strangely the severity of the law was combined with its extreme capaciousness.
Meanwhile the finance committee, appointed in 1797, heard evidence from Bentham's friend, Patrick Colquhoun, upon the Panopticon, and a report recommending it was proposed by R. Pole Carew, a friend of Samuel Bentham. Although this report was suppressed, the scheme apparently received an impetus.
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