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1826. Feby 13.
Constitutional Code Deontology Privte.
Ch. Negative beneficence.

This consists in nothing more than in the avoiding Negative effective benevolence
to do evil to others.

The evil that belong to the present work But the evil that we are engaged in preventing here
is that and that alone, which it is in a man's power
to produce, without exposing himself to legal punishment
at the hands of the law. For the purpose of
conveying a conception of it in the most impressive It would be a service of no small amount done to mankind if a work
and practically useful forms a small work even specially devoted to the collection and exhibition of those evils and
might not be unprofitably employed in collecting annoyances to which men are exposed & which are not visited
together and exhibiting, the different modes in by the interference of the Law. A manual of this sort would convey
which, and occasions on which, evil of this description a mass of practical moral instruction which might be turned
is liable and apt to be done. to a beneficial account on occasions of constant occurrence.

In this view the work intitled the "Miseries If the different causes cases of human men's vexations & sufferings
series of Human Life" may probably be found produced by the acts of others – and remediable by contrivance, were gathered
of some use i.e. in so far as the sufferings out of the different Volumes which tell the tales, whether in ridicule of
there mentioned are liable and apt to be produced or sympathy for Human Misery – such a collection might be
in one man by the act of another. made the Manual of abstential virtue.

Of these evils, one division might be composed
of those, by the infliction of which, no
advantage in any positive shape is produced
or expected to be produced to by the agent. In the
case of these, the efficient inducements may be referred to one
or other of two causes: 1. Antipathy or say malignity; 2. Sport.

Another division may be composed of the cases
in which, from the production of the evil, positive advantage in some shape or other, is reaped
or looked for by the agent.

Of this class, one such class may be composed
of those in which superiority on some account
or other, is by the agent exercised, or supposed by him to be exercised
over or at the expence of the patient.

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Date_1	1826-02-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	469	Info in main headings field	deontology private
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f154
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Corrections	sir john bowring	Paper Produced in Year
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