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thence learns to understand, that industry and a
quiet life are followed by consequences far more
advantageous to his welfare, than idleness and
refractory conduct. He lays a constraint upon his
evil passions, and this habit becomes by degrees a
settled disposition, which he retains after his
restoration to freedom. This view is favoured
particularly in Geneva; and in the work published by
M:r Grellet-Wammy on prison-discipline, the
decrease of the punishment by a third part of the
time adjudged, when the prisoner proves himself
worthy of it, is defended both by general
reasoning and individual examples.
M:r Aylies has devoted a separate Chapter of
his meritorious work, to the examination of the
influence of the right of pardon on the
penitentiary treatment. He says he fears, that the effects
so highly applauded, are only dissimulation, and
the cunning calculations of hypocrisy. He rests
his views on the testimony of several practical men,
among others Captain Elam Lynds, who told Mess:rs
Beaumont and Tocqueville that he had noticed,
that the most corrupted prisoners were just those
who most easily complied with the domestic
discipline appointed, and observed the greatest order;
that they consequently conducted themselves well
without in fact being better. The chaplain at
Auburn, M:r Smith, had said to the above mentioned
gentlemen, that he could place but little confidence
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