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Friendliness is effective benevolence on a small scale. Like good nature
it is a disposition to confer benefits – but the disposition is principally
directed to those with whom the friendly person has had intercourse – &
It is ready to act whenever the opportunity may present itself. It
imports somewhat more than a disposition to acts of kindness & is
accompanied by sympathy in a state of considerable activity. The notion
of friendliness involves with it that of sympathy – at least in the common
relations of life. In some of the higher walks, particularly the political
though the language of friendship is used the sentiment is hardly supposed
to exist. Though Its connection with effective benevolence is as has been stated intimate it
is also sometimes produced by the self-regarding affections. To the two branches
of morality all in it that constitutes virtue must be referred. Its good & its evil
may be considerably modified by the application of right principles
to its operation, – which in fact is the only reason for its admission
into the field of inquiry. Morals are not made for application to that
which is unchangeable, but to that which may be modified or changed by
a more correct view of things. As

Aristotle has made friendship a sort of cousin to the virtues.
It is a state or condition of life constituted by a certain sort of relation – analogous
to Maritality, Uxoriality, Paternity, Maternity, Filiality. It is a sort species of
marriage without sexual relations communion for its bond, – or progeny for its consequence
& is thence not for life or for a specific term.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	288	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f137
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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