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3d The interests of pride & vanity often check the dictates
of abstential benevolence. These may be called the interests
of the trumpet in whose sounds are drowned the voice
of philanthropy.

Any Pride & vanity dictate dogmatism. They practic assume
superiority & that superiority is always seeking to break
out into speech. In some act of another they find cause for
reprehension. Regardless of consequences they reprehend.
Benevolence would ask whether the reprehension was likely
to do good either to the reprehender or the reprehended – but
pride & vanity are too proud & vain to seek or to take advice
from morality.

Sometimes they intrude inappropriate or ill-timed advice.
There benevolence would might have taught them to refrain.
It might be a waste of words on their part, – producing
on the mind of the advised person an impression wholly o
uncompensated pain – pain far greater than the pleasure
which the pride or the vanity felt on giving their lecture.

There are other occasions where pride & vanity volunteer
information – neither desired – nor welcomed. The information
may look like a reproach to him whom it pretends to instruct
it often assumes the garb of assumption & of dogmatism.
What wonder it should be rebelled against!

In all these cases and there are many more such effective benevolence puts in its veto. And
these are only a few of the cases in a

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	258	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f108
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	5474
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