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A stigma has too frequently been attached to the self-regarding
considerations because in their erroneous calculations they have
been allowed to invade & do mischief in the of benevolence —
because to them the beneficent sympathies have been sometimes sacrificed.
And an erroneous estimate of what human nature might become
if the social were allowed preponderance over the selfish principle
has often as ever to fancy that their are analogies teaching & justifying the abstract
sacrifice of self. Beasts herd together, it is said — beasts of the same
sex who have no wants to satisfy by means of intercommunication
no pleasure motive but in the abstract gregarious pleasure instinct. Hence by
analogy it is argued, that man seeks society for its own sake
& has an instinctive irresistible social tendency, which has nothing to do
with the pleas enjoyments he derives from it. But the fact
assumption may well be doubted — The search for food, — the
defense against common enemies are it is believed the principal
motives (& these undoubted by self-regarding men) which determine the
congregation of animals together. Where the same sort of wants & the
same sort of dangers exist there is the bond the strongest: — and a
similarity of want & dangers often determines the association of
animals of different species. Those beasts animals which derive no assistance
from their fellows either for the supply of their necessity or for their
security from molestation — there the precariousness & scantiness of whose subsistence
makes on the contrary an opposition of interest, as for example the
larger beasts of prey, such as Lions, Tygers, etc. do not associate even among
themselves, — and if in the case is otherwise in these of inferior strength
as Wolves it may safely be attributed to their inability singly to master
the animals who are their most usual prey. They feed upon horses &
oxen which are stronger than themselves or sheep, which are watched &
guarded by men, their proprietors: The fox is a beast of prey, — & not

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	350	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25 / f26
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	hall 1831
Marginals		Paper Producer	louis francois joseph le dieu
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1831
Notes public		ID Number	5566
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