The most startling surprises were the bottomless well, the cave, the monster kaleidoscope, and the Panopticon.
"By Water to the Columbian Exposition"
Johanna S. Wisthaler
Nevertheless, although he condemned the whole fabric as it stood, Bentham was an absolute believer in the unlimited power of laws and institutions; nor was he far from wishing to deal with them on the principles applicable to the reform of prisons, as undesirable but necessary instruments of coercion to be despotically administered upon a scientific model, after the fashion of his favourite Panopticon.
"Studies in Literature and History"
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall