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Public meetings, or deliberative assemblies often afford
occasion for the exercise of active beneficence on a large scale.
But under the excitement which the presence of numbers creates
too often the passions obtain the mastery, & the passions of
the orator acting upon those of the auditors lead to consequences
which benevolence must deplore. That always mischievous – & often
dishonest practice of attaching to conduct adjectival
terms of praise or blame – the habit of speaking of actions
– not in their simple shape, – but with the association of
some term of reproach or eulogy – is too apt to obtain
on occasions, – where to move men's feelings is as much
an object of desire, as to convince their judgments, – where
in fact the great object ambition of the speaker is to find such
instruments as will enable him to carry his auditors with him & to the conclusions at which he desires they should continue arrive.
But let the Deontological Law be present to his mind &
the triumph he will desire will be only the triumph of
the greatest happiness principle. Contending for that & for
that alone, the victory of any sentiments more friendly
to the principle than his own sentiments will be, in fact
his victory.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	572	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f258
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	1831
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1831
Notes public		ID Number	5788
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