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1819 Apr. 30
Deontology Private

Beneficence – negative. Instrument, discourse; 1. transient i.e. oral
Evil-speaking – when and why to be avoided. 2 Permanent: i.e. Graphical

Temptation a useful object in which the act may originate
Consequence resulting producing.

1. Evil speaking to a man may have for its object either good
or evil – if good, good to himself or good to others than himself –
if to others than himself good to yourself or good to others at large.

As to evil without good, that is impossible; for no evil ever is or
can be done but with a view to good. The least possible good is
in this case, where it is thro' ill will to the man that you do
the evil, without doing good in any shape other than that of a
gratification to your own ill will: which gratification in the
supposition of your conceiving yourself to have received evil at
his hands and to be acting in consideration of such evil, is
called vengeance or revenge.

But let the evil thus done by you be ever so enormous, and
the gratification to be derived from it ever so slight, still the obect,
in contemplation of which the act found its motive, is
in itself not evil but good.

To do good to a man the evil you speak must be to him
not of him unless it be in the view that what is said of him
may in some way or other for his good have the affect of drawing
on him punishment at the hands of the political or of the
popular sanctions.

Identifier: | JB/015/482/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	482a "a" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 482.	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f167
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	5698
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