Excerpt from Remarks on Cellular Separation: Read by Appointment of the American Association for the Improvement of Penal and Reformatory Institutions, at the Annual Meeting in New York, November 29, 1860 At the very opening of the Eastern Penitentiary, more than thirty years ago, the same views were expressed by one of the officers who signed the communication just cited, Mr. George W. Smith, in his Defence of the Separate System, republished in 1833 by order of the Philadelphia Society. In that valuable witness of the opinions and designs which were entertained and published at the period just mentioned, the period of most excited partisan ship, the author said, Religious and other instruo tion will be constantly and regularly administered; the visits of the virtuous and benevolent permitted and encouraged, under proper restrictions; unremit ted solitude, or separation from all society, will not be, therefore, permitted. Again, It was never ih tended by the friends of our system, even by thme who were opposed to the introduction of labor, todeprive the convicts of exercise, of books of instruc tion, and of suitable society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.