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2d The love of ease, – heedlessness, is another cause of the
absence of the abstential principle. There are men who
will not take the trouble of avoiding to give pain to
others. They have no particular desire to intrude an
annoyance but will give not bestir themselves no pains whatever
to avoid giving it causing that annoyance. Their laziness is in a word stronger than
their benevolence. They would rather sleep on their pillows
than rouse themselves to exertion. They give precipitate
opinions to avoid the labors of investigation. They compromise
themselves do hasty deeds as if for the very purpose of compromising
themselves. They do not choose to ask themselves whether
they ought to doubt – still less are they willing to
apply the old aphorism 'If you doubt – abstain'.
Their love of ease is flattered by a prompt decision –
by getting rid of a question the discussion or examination
of which would have been a demand on their attention.
They fancy they have relieved themselves of an embarrassment
by a peremptory verdict.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	257	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f107
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	5473
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