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Mercy. It is humanity but it supposes the object of it to be more
directly dependent on him who exercises it. The party served is here in the
power hands of the party serving – their mutual position more remote, at least as contrasted
to by the helplessness of the one party & the power of the other. It requires
a greater intellectual effort To form a right judgment of the cases in
which mercy may be exercised with a view to the greatest happiness
principle depends on the intellectual part of man – the disposition
to its exercise on his moral part. Attached to it are ideas of
power associated with vague conceptions of tyranny. These grow out
of the distance between the dispenser & the recipient of mercy. In the
political field the law which has been laid down in the case of
humanity applies here. The mercy – the favor to the individual must be weighed
against the evil done to the community. Here is The demanded from made upon
mercy than from is usually greater than that made upon humanity. Mercy Mercy belongs more particularly
to be executive powers of government Its value in the estimate of
virtue must be calculated by its effects. The portion of it which
has virtue in it belongs to effective benevolence.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	286	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f135
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	5502
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