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It is to be hoped that if this Volume have any influence that sufficient a time is arrived in which the translation of vague
generalities & of arbitrary assumptions into the simple language of pains & pleasures
will as seen in the gradually banishment of a phraseology which more than
any other tends to cover all questions of vice & virtue with impenetrable mists.
An act for example is called an unnatural act & therefore it is reprobated –
& this language is used very frequently by those who contend that all the
natural tendencies of mankind are towards profligacy – but if the question meaning be thoroughly
sifted it will be found that nothing is intended but except more than that the act is unusual –
or uncommon. But this of itself predicates neither vice nor virtue, –neither
merit nor demerit. The sublimest acts of virtuous heroism draw their lustre
from their rarity – they may be called uncommon – unnatural – Is that a
ground for reprobating them? Far from it.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	178	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f44*
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5394
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