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Again the laws of extra-regarding prudence will be applied
with greater facility on those occasions where no difference has
place as to the inferiority or superiority of a man's condition as
regards the party with whom he has to do. Actions which though in the main guided by the Deontological
principle might be found more or less accordant with it, according to the
right estimate formed of the relative situation of the parties. The very
action conduct which might be prudent & benevolent when practised, for example
by an opulent man towards his poorer neighbour – by a wise man
towards his less instructed acquaintance – by a father towards a child –
by an old man to a youth – might change its character by being
adopted by the poor, – – or by the parties man – opposite side – by those whose
condition is contrasted in the circumstance of wealth, – or knowledge – or
of paternity, – or age. In a situation of equality the mind is
released from weighing in the balance many topics of difference – which if they
existed are intitled to be duly estimated. As the pains & pleasures
enjoyed or suffered by persons in the same condition resemble each
other more closely than where the gradations of rank have separated
men the similarity of position will increase the power of accurately estimating the value of the pleasure & the pain.
will be avoided by the For pleasures & pains are not worth seeking
or avoiding except as in so far in as they act upon the individual – and can
be applied to his particular case.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	449	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f134
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5665
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