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The modes of annoyance by which efficient
benevolence may can gratify others by action, – may may be
arranged under the same heads as those by which
annoyance is caused avoided – and belong to two classes –
1st. Discourse – 2d Deportment. And as negative
morality takes under its cognizance those acts of mischief
which the laws allow to pass unpunished – the political
sanction being too great & solemn for the occasion –
so positive benevolence takes under its charge that
conduct which state recompense leaves unrewarded.
But the interposition of the Law being more punitory
& prohibitory, – than remuneratory & exciting – inasmuch as
it is more specially charged with the functions of
protecting individuals against wrong than with those of encouragement
for right – a small portion alone of the field of
active beneficence is taken possession of by the
legal or political authority. Numerous acts of
maleficence fall under the cognizance of the Law's penalties
for whose counter, or corresponding acts of beneficence those
Laws provide no reward. Over multitudinous deeds
whose results would be a balance of pain the
deontological authority obtains the allied influence
of the retributive legal power of – each assisting the other
with its restrictive force – but in the regions of positive
benevolence, – the deontological principle is for the
most part left to its own solitary influences for the

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Folio number	559	Info in main headings field
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