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For negative effective benevolence put abstinential.
For discovering modes of modifications of active effective
effective benevolence by analogy and contrast, look to do of
abstinential effective benevolence.
N.B. Effective benevolence, whether abstinential
or active stands in need of a definition; viz: to
shew how it agrees and differs with self-regarding
prudence.
Ex. gr. Active Abstinential effective benevolence – Abstain from holding
up to a man's view imperfections which it is clearly
beyond his power to remedy. 𝓧 Active effective benevolence.
Hold up to a man's view his accomplishments.
If he be not in a situation to do you any
particular service, this is active effective benevolence,
if he be, it is active effective benevolence, and self-regarding
prudence likewise.
On this part of the field of action Abstinential effective benevolence on this occasion part of the field of active
needs no conditions or limitations: active effective
benevolence needs divers limitations.
1. Be the accomplishment what it may, care may be requisite,
according to his disposition, lest it give inordinate encrease
to his pride or vanity, and thereby becomes productive
of evil to himself or others.
2. If what appears in his eyes an accomplishment is of
such a nature tendency as in the course of the exercise gives to it
is productive of preponderant evil to men or other
sinister beings, the flatterer becomes their own accessory to all
the evil produced in consequence by the person flattered.
3. If you exceed the bounds of truth and the object of your flattery perceives
it, and perceives that you yourself are sinister of conceived that
it does so, you may
thus become an
object of contempt to him,
and the whatever praises you may
on former occasions have
gratified him with, may
thus have lost their value
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