He came into contact with the incarcerated--not alone with the law-breaker, hardened or yet to be hardened, but with the wrongfully imprisoned and with the debtor.

The misery of the debtor seems to have struck with insistent hand upon his heart's door.

The parliamentary inquiry was doubtless productive of some good, albeit evidently not of great good.

But though the inquiry was over, Oglethorpe's concern was not over.

It brooded, and, in the inner clear light where ideas grow, eventually brought forth results.
Numbers of debtors lay in crowded and noisome English prisons, there often from no true fault at all, at times even because of a virtuous action, oftenest from mere misfortune.