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As regards discourse the inquiry of positive effective
benevolence is – what are the means by which language
can be most best made to advance the happiness of others? And
the occasions which offer themselves for consideration are
as before, those in which,
the subject person is present those, – in which
the subject person is absent & those where
the subject persons & others are present.

In all these cases the pleasure produced must primarily
depend on the power of the speaker – power intellectual,
moral & active. The power growing out of wisdom, –
knowledge, – the social affections & the will to give them
a beneficent direction. The power of superiority in any
of its shapes, whether political or social, – whether of age,
station, – wealth, – or any other influence. To employ their influence action for the removal of pain – or the sources
of pain – for the promotion of pleasure, – or the
introduction of the sources of pleasure, whether the
discourse be oral or written is the business of
active beneficence.

In the presence of the person of whom you
are speaking – & in so far as the topics of conversation
are in your power choose always those which
are likely to be the most pleasurable to him –
taking care, however, that nothing is said by you
the result of which would lower your own
credit for veracity, – or imply approbation of
pernicious words or actions. In the first case damage
would might be done to your own reputation – in the second
damage to the character of the hearer. But if
you have occasion to speak of refer to meritorious conduct
on the part of him to whom you are speaking –

Identifier: | JB/015/561/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	561	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f247
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1816]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1816
Notes public		ID Number	5777
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