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The Duty of the Deontological treatise cannot be
better portrayed than when he, watching the occasion of calm &
quiet thought, measures up in his own mind a courage to the
mind of others those instructions which may be turned to account
in the tranquil or passionate hour. The time for planting
truth is when there is freedom from exciting – Truths so
planted may in the moment of excitation part with their
salutary influences power. Occasions then always will be when
the affections seem peculiarly attuned to the influences of
virtuous suggestion. These are hours of sunshine – hours of
happiness which dispose us to the reception of prudent &
generous impulses. It is these that the word appropriately
spoken – the deontological law happily felicitously put forward –
may make its indelible impression – & become a practical &
efficient monitor when impulses either imprudent, – or
maleficent would lead astray. For to lead bring passion into the
reposes of virtue so that virtue may assume the sovereign, or with similar success to to bring conduct virtue into the regime of passion
is the highest principle of morality; – a principle which cab
only be secured by that provisional principle which lays
in its stock stores of useful principle with anticipatory care. It
is not f amidst the hurly-burly of exciting temptations that we can
safely look around us for motives to check their promptings –
Let the rules be gathered up – let the motives be fixed within
us – while the temptations are absent – & it is thus – & thus
only that when the temptations are present, – we shall find the
arguments at hand for resisting them.

In the still hour when passion is at rest
gather up stores of wisdom in thy breast –
So when the storms awake – & in the din –
Imprudence or maleficence, to sin
Would tempt our thy frailty – then the wisdom stor'd
Shall check the passion – see its tides are poured
A pebble turns the streamlet – whose proud sway
Unbridled ex sweeps the granite rocks away.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	346	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f21
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	1831
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1831
Notes public		ID Number	5562
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