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Decency is a term vague & unsatisfactory. It means as generally
used the avoidance of bringing forward what is disagreeable to others. This
is a negative virtue. When it comes in a positive shape it is frequently
only an ecclesiastical virtue employing wealth for the purposes of delusion. Decency is
to cover the throne with crimson – to carve the pulpit – to provide
Lawn sleeves – it is to do that which it is agreeable to the ruling few to
have done. Delicacy is one of the branches of decency, but more commonly
referring to the avoidance of physical annoyances. It is not an unusual thing for
men to take merit to themselves for being disgusted with that which
does not disgust people in general, – & to imagine that this
ever waning affected sensibility is a mark of their belonging to the
aristocratic classes. Decorum is another of the forms of decency – it refers
for the most part to the avoidance of matters of small moment, – the
non-avoidance of which would expose us to the contempt of others
But decency, – delicacy & decorum

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	303	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f152
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	5519
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