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But the official care in the improvement of the prisons, how well soever it may be arranged, and although exercised in the most philanthropic spirit, requires nevertheless the support of society, and municipal assistance. Without these it will always be insufficient, and can possibly in time degenerate to an injurious partiality. The question of the correction and improvement of our fallen fellow creatures, touches the great branches of the state too nearly not to be embraced by all its members. It is only by this means that a beneficent link can be retained between the public and the house of correction. The criminal must be condemned to lose his freedom and to be separated from society, in order to put it out of his power to injure, and be restored, if possible, by means of a rational punishment, to reflection and to better purposes, but society must with tender sympathy and maternal care follow even its misled children. The solitary cell ought to be inaccessible to the outer world, but not to the admonishing and instructing voice of the philanthropist. I was in prison and ye visited me, say the Scriptures; may this heavenly doctrine not be lost, but manifest itself in action! It is not enough to complain of disorders and crimes committed, to show sometimes a childish fear for a dreaded violation of justice, but draw back from all participation when any claim is made on exertions or activity on our own part. The evil cannot be conjured away, either
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