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6 Contempt or ill will expressed towards the class of men, – or country to which
the hearer belongs. This is a malevolence exercised on a
wide scale & unfortunately finding sympathy in the bosoms
of many who are in the same cons dition as the malevolent
person. It sometimes takes the name of esprit de corps ifof nationality –
sometimes the higher title of patriotism – and in so far
as these imply the desire & the effects action of good to upon the class or individuals
nation we belong or parties with which we are specially connected to nothing can be said against them – it
is merely a diffusion of the benevolent & beneficent principle.
But from the moment in which they pass from their exercise is exclusively directed to the body the class or
nation to which we belong and is denied to others – from the moment in which they break out into words &
deeds of antipathy, – from the moment in which the
reason fact that because a fellow man speaks a different
language, – or lives under a different government, he is
therefore a set object for contempt abhorrence or misdoings – from
that moment they are maleficent. A toast for example in America has been
given "Our country right or wrong
which is in itself a proclamation of maleficence & if the brought into operation might lead to crimes &
follies on the widest conceivable field – to plunder, – murder
& all the consequences of unjust war. Nor less blameworthy
was the declaration of a Prime Minister of Great this
country that England – nothing but England – formed
any portion of his care or concern. An enlarged philanthropy
might indeed have given to both expressions a deontological meaning
– since the true interests of nations – as the true interests
of individuals are equally those of prudence & benevolence
but the phrases were employed solely to justify wrong, if that wrong were
perpetrated by our country the land or government which we call our own.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	497	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f182
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	hall
Marginals		Paper Producer	louis francois joseph le dieu
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5713
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