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6.

If you find a man
engaged in a pursuit
in which success is hopeless,
and expense by
waste of time seriously
prejudicial, tell him
so.

But if not, avoid
laying anything that
can tent do discourage
him.

On the contrary, say
what appears to you,
so it be consistent
with truth, likely to
encourage him.

Hold up to his view
the considerations whh
tend to probabilize
success: not bringing
out spontaneously
any the tendency of
which is to disprobablize
it.

More particularly
if success would
in your view be upon
the whole beneficial
to himself and mankind
at large.

If in this case you
represent success
as improbably, you
will hurt his feelings
without any possible
good. If he on his part
contend in favour of
probability of success,
you will appear to him
in the character of a
person making pretension
to superior
wisdom, & holding
him in contempt in
the character of a self-
deceiver.

Whereas want of
judgement may be
evidenced as well, by
regarding success
as improbable where
it is probable, as by
regarding it as probable
when it is improbable.



Identifier: | JB/015/490/004
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Box

015

Main Headings

deontology

Folio number

490a
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Image

004

Titles

Category

linking material

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f175

Penner

sir john bowring

Watermarks

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Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

5706

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