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Chapter 4
Neglected Efficient Benevolence

The compound term effective or efficient benevolence has been —— adopted for in consequence of the want of any a
single word which should imply the union of benevolence & beneficence. These
operate by checking or by exciting to action. They are either restrictive or instigative.
The effective benevolence which requires abstention from action
is the first branch wh that deserves attention. Actions there
are, & those very numerous, which at the same time that they are inbibited by
the efficient benevolence, or habits are equally manifestly so by the considerations
of prudence. And where the alliance between prudence &
benevolence is obvious, there can be no doubt as to the line
of duty. But the miscalculations of self regard so often
encroach on the claims of benevolence – the sacrifice of the
happiness of others is so often made on the false estimate
that by that such sacrifice our own happiness is best promoted – that
the first and most important task of the moralist, is to harmonize the
selfish & beneficent principle – & to demonstrate that
a due regard to the felicity of others is the safest security & best & wisest provision
for our own.

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