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There are as has been repeated two grand divisions
in a man's sphere of action conduct, one concerns himself & the other all besides –
these involve personal & extra-personal considerations.
All actions that regard himself & which are not indifferent
are either prudent or imprudent. All actions that regard
others & which are not indifferent, are either beneficent
or maleficent. Hence Virtue & Vice – all virtues & all vices –
belong either to individual or social relations. Virtue, if
individual is prudential – if social, it is benevolent
& thus all the virtues are modifications either of prudence or
benevolence. Not that all prudence is virtue – for it is prudent
to eat & drink & sleep – but virtue is, where the temptation to
a present enjoyment is sacrificed to a greater future enjoyment –
not that all benevolence is virtue, for benevolence may
encourage both vice & misery, – but in order to be efficient
it must operate to the diminution or extinction of both.
The foundation of all virtue is individual happiness – the
pursuit of which is necessary to the very existence of the
human race – the pursuit of which is necessary to the
existence of virtue –& the past & judicious pursuit of
which is the true & sole foundation resource for the extension of
the virtue and consequent felicity.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	328	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	c wise 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	5544
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