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peremptory mandates of politeness. A better system of morals than
that which has so long overruled society is gradually introducing itself
and regulating the world's judgment by a more faithful standard of right.
In this there is consolation – in this may be seen a tendency towards
a state of things where the social & the popular rewards & punishments
will without be sufficient to restrain & encourage a vast number of acts which are now left to the intervention either of the legislative, – administrative
or judicial authorities – to the dictum of the priesthood – or the
terrors of the law giver. With the deontological princiiple test in hand
as a test let Chesterfield's Letters be read – or any other work – whose
object it is to teach the minor morals, – & it will be found very easy to
separate the chaff from the wheat – to rescue & reduce to practice
whatever is wise & virtuous, – & to pick out & fling aside as unfit for use all
those instructions which violate the great primary principles for .
Such an employment would be a delightful exercise both for
the intellect & the affections: – for the intellect as engaged
especially in calculating the claims of the self-regarding
interest – & for the affections in summoning into consideration giving weight to
all the suggestions of effective benevolence.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	442	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f127
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	hall
Marginals		Paper Producer	louis francois joseph le dieu
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5658
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