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so distinct in character operate toward the same end. The
sensual affections are checked by the operation of the irascible
exerted on those among whom the sensual seek their gratification —
the fear of retaliation and retribution, as the
N natural consequences of resentment. It has been remarked
that as in the individual so in Society at large the affection
of sympathy is in its weakest state during the earliest
period of existence. As age and experience advance it
receives additional force and efficiency. He extends its
influence fir the most part with the extension of existence —
beginning with the small immediate relations where the ties of
consanguinity, affinity, domestic contract or friendly intercourse
are strongest, and advancing with experience and mental
culture into a widening field of action. Its links become
multifarious, and capable of great extension. They spread
into divers circles — domestic, social, professional, civic,
provincial, national, — some independent of and others connected
with each other. And in so far as much and so far as
the sympathetic affections can be called into action their
tendencies must be to increase the happiness of him who
experiences them — while if these happiness-producing
tendencies lead to us consequences of a contrary effect
or to no consequence of equal amount, the result is a clear
accession to the general stock of happiness. And thus even
the self-regarding affection, employed as a source of selfish
enjoyment, brings into action a great mass of public happiness.
The very contagion of the self-regarding principle is
beneficent. A man witnessing the services rendered by
his neighbour to his neighbours' neighbour contracts and
catches as it were a propensity to requite the friendliness
with his own friendliness — to bestow upon the author
of benefits, benefits like those he has bestowed. The cheapest
made of requital and considering its extreme facility not the least efficacious
is on all occasions to give to the benevolent affections an outward expression —
to bring into conversation as frequently as practicable the language of good-wills.
To praise the virtuous doings of another man is to dispense a direct recompense to
virtue, and at the same time to direct the popular sanction to the encouragement
of similar acts. And thus does the principle of self produce the social affection,
and the social the popular, and all combine together to increase the
general good.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings
Folio number	360	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	n
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c7
Penner		Watermarks	i m & co 1831
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1831
Notes public		ID Number	50214
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