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9 Mansuetude when a virtue is on extra regarding
prudence. Like modesty is flattering to the self esteem of the
person towards whom it is exercised. In its general acceptation
it has more of humanity in it than modesty has It is modesty
with a deeper tinge of humility or, which produces the same effect
upon the object, it modesty in which influenced by timidity, it goes father in
deference & submission than modesty does – & when suffering
is brought into action Mansuetude becomes patience or longanimity.
It is a quality virtuous quality ordinarily virtuous in most cases vibrating as it were between other ordinarily virtuous
qualities, – but whose amount of virtue can only be estimated
by the application of the Deontological tests. The meekness of
a man whose meekness diminishes his own enjoyments and
adds less to the happiness of others would be than the amount he sacrifices of his own, – that meekness being
imprudent & improvident & is – would be the contrary of virtuous. The meekness
of a man whose meekness is pernicious to others & useless to
himself is unbenevolent – & the contrary of virtuous. The
Meekness is to a considerable extent a natural personal gift or
be and it is only to such portion of it as is acquired by
thought that the char question of morality can apply.
From this portion, so diminished, subtract every thing
that is not prudence or benevolence, – & the residuum
will be the virtue – that is to say the prudence & the effective
benevolence will be the virtue & nothing else.

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