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1820. April 9.

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2. The higher the degree of opulence, the less the degree
of sympathy, in the breast of the opulent for the unopulent: for
that portion of mankind in behalf of whom the demand for
such beneficence as it may be in his way to exercise is greatest.

Correspondent to, and intimately connected with,
sympathy of affection, is sympathy of conception.

By and in proportion to sympathy of affection,
a man is disposed to add to the enjoyments, and substract from
the sufferings, of the objects of his sympathy.

Proportioned to the correctness clearness and
compleatess of the conception a man has of those enjoyments
and those sufferings, the (his degree of sensibility being given,) is
the strength of the sympathy of affection with relation to those
same objects of his sympathy.

Sensibility being wanting, sympathy of affection
may be equally wanting, although sympathy of conception
be entire: but in so far as sympathy of conception is wanting,
sympathy of conception affection has no place.

For all bodily pains, sympathy of conception must,
on the part of the experienced Surgeon, be greater than on the
part of an average man. But if his sensibility and consequently
if his sympathy of affection were so likewise, he would
not be fit for the exercise of his art.

Want of sympathy of conception concurrs with
the feeling of relative independence in destroying in the breast
of the opulent, sensibility, and, with it, beneficence positive
and negative, with relation to the unopulent: he has no need
of their free services; their free and gratuitous services: he has no
conception of their wants: he has no feeling for their wants.
So

Identifier: | JB/036/016/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-04-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	24-28
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	016	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / e12
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10940
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