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by the poets of Elysium, where every man is sufficient to himself
must be dull and dreary indeed. It must be intolerable – it must be
pure selfishness disassociated from benevolence. Abstential Take pleasure away – & what
would be of what is left behind would be to b you may make happiness
when you can make a palace out of smoke & moonshine.

With a man's elevation in society the influence of his
vices & virtues in society extends. The powers of beneficence & maleficence
increase together. The amours of Henry the Fourth, produced an incalculable
mass of misery. He made war upon Spain for the purpose of getting
hold of the wife of another. He sacrificed every now and then a portion
of his army for the purpo sake of having his pleasure with his belle Gabrielle.
Let those who will give their sympathy, – their approbation to such a
nuisance as this monarch was – but why should we? If he had lost an arm or a leg while
pursuing his pleasures, great would have been the clamour, –unbounded
the expression of interest & sympathy. His partizans lost their lives
by thousands – & what cared he?

To the power of situation – the power of intellect may be added to it to give sanction to good or evil. Charles the 12 would have
been more mischievous, had he not been mad. His obstinacy in doing
mischief by wholesale was just as bad as Henry the Fourth's amours.
For selfish enjoyments in one shape, Henry sacrificed his thousands, –
for selfish enjoyments in another shape, Charles did the like. When the laws of
morality are understood, – when the popular sanctions become properly enlightened
the misery-spreading freaks of monarchs will be no longer practised on
mankind.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	254	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f104
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	j & m mills 1828
Marginals		Paper Producer	john fraunceis gwyn
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	5470
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