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But self-regarding prudence is not only
a virtue; —] it is a virtue on which the very
existence of the race depends. If I thought more about
you than I thought about myself, I should be the blind leading
the blind and we should fall into the ditch together. It is as
impossible that your pleasures should be better to me than
my own as that your eye sight should be better to me than
my own. My happiness and my unhappiness are as much
a part of me as any of my faculties 2 or organs 1, [and I might
as well profess to feel your tooth-ache more keenly than
you do as to be more interested in your well-being than
in my own well-being.]

The sum total
of happiness that
necessarily be made
up of
that is
demanded by prudence
is thus required by
necessity not
continue to exist
but for a
a selfish
principle had
adorn

The sun of moral science is in the distinction
between prudence and benevolence. By it, light is substituted
to darkness, order to chaos. By it alone can be
traced out the affinities — from it alone can be deduced the
relations between the several other classes of moral qualities.
By it alone can the limits between virtue and vice be
discovered. All anomalies may be reduced by it — and by
it alone — to regularity. By it and by it alone a variety of
qualities which have stood in an unintelligible or
insulated shape, may be brought into connection or
contact contrast. It is the spear of Ithuriel, by which
evil and good may be detected, and made to present
themselves in their own true shapes.

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