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desire which had originally been calling for its gratification
being was no longer in existence there remained no call demand to which denial could
be opposed. When things are in this situation the virtue so far from
being extinguished annihilated has arrived at the pinnacle of its highest excellence &
shines forth in its brightest lustre. Defective indeed would that definition
of virtue be which excluded from its pale the very perfection of virtue.

Effort undoubtedly is needful to virtue – & the seat
of that effort in the case of prudence is principally in the understanding
in the case of effective benevolence mainly in the will and the affections.

I meet an adversary in the road. He aims a blow
at me with a stick. I spring aside and escape the stroke. Here is
usefulness – self preservation, – but here is no room for prudence.

I hear that an adversary is laying wait for me
at a certain spot. I avoid the need path that leads to it & repair to my place
of destination by a more circuitous or expensive road. The Here is usefulness by
self-preservation – but here too there has been exercise of the understanding –
& room, at least, for prudence.

And so when the seat of the effort has been the
will. I purchase at the Baker's shop a loaf for my own dinner, there is double
usefulness – usefulness to myself by the preservation of life – to the baker by his
profit on the loaf.

I am accosted by a famished beggar. He has more need
of the loaf than I. I give it him & lose my dinner. Here too is usefulness, –
but here also is virtue: for to subject myself to pain as here – to pain in the shape
of hunger requires an effort. and that effort I have made.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	230	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f85+
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	5446
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