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The power exercised over the Press is one of those instr
instruments of good or evil whose influences upon human
felicity are, though not definable of most extended range. And
in as much as the re action of opinion upon a public writer especially if anonymous is
for the most part less operative, than if individual responsibility
were present to answer for acts & for it the consequences of thoughts or actions
it is rather to the claims of benevolence than to those of prudence
that mankind must look for the proper direction of the
writer's productions. They act in a wide field – a field proportioned
to the number of readers & to the influence of those readers
upon society. When an author gives vent from one some
inaccessible retirement to opinions which distress the feelings of
others – this dissocial affections have not the restraint put
upon them which exists when a man gives utterance to his ideas
viva voce of. If, however, the desire to maximize good
were present to the minds of public writers – if it were ever less
their purpose to give pain to some object of individual
hostility than to further the great ends of the popular felicity – the atmosphere of opinion would soon become bright & clear.

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Effective benevolence positive

1 Oral Discourse
1 Subject-person present
2. Subject person absent
3. Subject person & others present

Modes of annoyance satisfaction-giving by Discourse

Identifier: | JB/015/571/001 "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	571	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f257
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	c wise 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	pasha of egypt
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	5787
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