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Cleanliness acts through the medium of the imagination – it is a
negative virtue. It is the avoidance of practices by which disease or
the apprehension of disease is produced. The neglect of salutary attentions
to the person is immediately associated with the idea of disease. Dirt
for example left on the person body calls up the thought of unhealthiness. It
is a sort of mis-location of matter in small particles – of which the
uncomfortable sense is so strong that the finest white powder appears offensive if it have
fallen into a scuttle of coalts. It & attention to cleanliness is demanded
by prudence in as far as inattention to it is injurious to ourselves, –
by benevolence in as far as inattention to it is offensive to others.
The impression of its absence may be produced where the intrusive
substances are not in themselves disagreeable. Gold dust sticking to a
man's face would give nearly the same impression of a want of cleanliness as
any other substance – just as the finest white powder on a scuttle of coals would
give a notion of impurity.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	304	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f153
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	5520
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