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Quotation from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle

“in my life I never saw so clean a building”

Thomas Carlyle

Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. II, Model Prisons (Project Gutenberg #1140)

Carlyle's first impression of the model London prison, before he turns its cleanliness into an argument against misplaced philanthropy.

Citation: "in my life I never saw so clean a building" — Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. II, Model Prisons (Project Gutenberg #1140). (id latter-day-pamphlets-q4)

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