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1821 Jany 15
2. Parti 2 Again when you have it in view to your endeavors are in certain are directed towards
to be employed in doing good to an individual, in other words
to serve him to do him service, if there be any option as
to the mode or way observe to serve him in his own
way consider and observe what mode of so being served be
the effect in question is most to his taste.
If you serve him as you think or say in a way
which is yours and not his the value of the of any service of every may
In by an indefinite amount be thus reduced. If the action of
serving a man not in the way in which he wishes to be served
but in the way in which he ought to be served or the way
in which it is best for him to be served be carried to a
certain length, this is not tyranny not beneficence: an
exercise of power for the satisfaction of the self-regarding affection
not the conferring of a benefit, an act of beneficence for the gratification of the
sympathetic or social affection.
True it is that so you do but produce to the individual in question a balance
on the side of good, you may have the choice as to the quantity
you will produce is yours, and be it greater or less your
act is an act of beneficence but if by a little self restraint
at the end of added to a little reflection you could do good to him
in his own way – serve him in his own way, it is bad
economy and weakness on your part to choose to serve him
to a or do a less good to him only because it is your own way rather
than do more good to him render him greater service
as you might do by serving him in his own way instead
of yours.
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