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If any reference to irremediable infirmities be thus
prohibited by the laws of benevolence, – far more decidedly
& severely are they is it where they it comes in the shape of
ridicule. Derision of organic defects is one of the
cruellest forms of pain giving. Imperfections there are
which may or may not be shaken off, – but where in the
very constitution of the human being some infirmities is
unwrought – the demands of abstential beneficence are
peremptory.

To this class of evils belong many of those tricks &
inflictions known as school boy jokes. Some malformation –
some human wretchedness is often marked out & selected as
the butt for petty inflictions of pain. Let the maleficent
tendency be checked in its very earliest exhibitions. Let
children especially be instructed that the pleasure which finds
its aliment in the pain of another – in the useless, uncompensated
pain of another, – has in it the germ of all that is
immoral.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	512	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f197
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	5728
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