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In the present case the is between the pleasures of amity & the pains
of the popular sanction. There are certain services rendered by what a man
exposes himself to the loss of reputation – even services which are by no means
inconsistent with the primary virtues. Fashion makes multitudinous exceptions
which it would be difficult to get by any correct sense of the demands
of prudence & benevolence. In different states of civilization those exceptions have
undergone many modifications. The higher the seats of rank, – the greater the
distance between the most elevated & the most lease elevated spheres, the less
has Fashion introduced of restraint. Where In proportion as equality takes
possession of society are is the latitude allowed to such services, diminished & the
restrictions upon them increased. Going back into the field of time, we shall
find that deportment, – and especially language was in use, of a
character so obsequious which that it would not now be tolerable at all – that habits of
submission & expressions of humiliation were then deemed proper, – prudent –
& even demanded by good breeding, which now would be placed to the account
of servility, – meanness, – & even baseness – & draw down on him who
should venture to use them a full measure of popular contempt. To both
into the field of issues. Visit any Mahomedan – any Oriental nation.
In those countries under those governments the distance between the highest
& lowest degree is almost infinite, & between the different degrees enormous.
Thus no the measure of obsequiousness is out of place – none is checked
by opinion – To those in the lower ranks self-abasement is self-preservation –
and the most prostrate servility is demanded by prudence.

Th , or as the is, cringing or fawning to his
superior, the same man is stiff & even insolent to his inferior. It is an
every day case: and a very natural one, for the suffering to which he
subjects himself in the one case he seeks to counterbalance by enjoyment of
the same character in the other. But by this gratifying his pride
he provokes enmity, – & through enmity ill offices, & through ill offices
suffering in all imaginable shapes – Is he on the whole a gainer by
this indulgence? That will depend much partly on his idiosyncratic task
& partly upon accident.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	274	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f124
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1827
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1827
Notes public		ID Number	5490
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