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1824 June 1
Deontology Private

If you have to communicate information of any sorts avoid
all arrogance.
Beneficence negative. 1. Arrogance: 1 in communication
of alledged facts

Instead of In preference to general assertions employ the most particular and
stating state if possible the authority, or authorities: the person or persons who
with reference to yourself are the narrating witness or witnesses.

General assertions are but conclusions – conclusions done
by the judgment from particular supposed fact. Assent to a general
assertion supposes two things: – unlimited confidence in the appropriate
aptitude of all supposed witnesses through whose mind and tongues
or pens the supposed fact has passed or is supposed to have passed: 2. & the like
confidence in the rectitude of the conclusions – was those in the
general rectitude of the intellectual faculties – of him the party by whom
the communication has been made.

If it be to a familiar friend that the communication is
made by you, the non-mention of the individual person or
other source of evidence from whom your belief has been derived is a
token of want of confidence in him: if by any tie or propriety
you stand precluded from making the disclosure, acknowledging
that this is the case is less offensive than the arrogance which
calls for implicit evidence: it indicates some confidence, not
the want absence of confidence.

If a friend be permanently distant
do not communicate to him any vexations
of yours which he is unable to relieve. You
will spare him all the suffering, that his
sympathy would have excited.

Identifier: | JB/015/492/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Date_1	1824-06-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	492	Info in main headings field	deontology private
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f177
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	sir john bowring	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5708
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