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Chapter XVII
False virtue

There are many other qualities which have been put forward
by different writers on morality as evitable virtues, – & as
entitled to the praise & the recompense of virtue. In most
cases they are of ambiguous character, – & as they present certain
points of contact with prudence & benevolence, they obtain
the character of virtue not so much on account of their essential
attributes but as of their accidental association with qualities
really virtuous. The very defect of character may in this
way present be made to present an aspect of virtue. And
the affections may be so engaged with one side of a question as
to interfere with a right judgment of its moral merit.
A man mother steals a loaf to satisfy the hunger of a starving child.
How easy it would be to excite the sympathies in favor of
her maternal tenderness so as to bury bury all consideration of
her dishonesty in the depth of those sympathies. And in truth
nothing but an enlarged & expansive allow estimate – such as
would take the case out of the regions of sentimentality, – into
the wider fields regions of public good could ever enable lead to
the formation of a right judgment in such matters.

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