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<p>From detached scrap.</p> | |||
<p>6.</p> | |||
<p>If you find a man<lb/> engaged in a pursuit<lb/> in which success is hopeless,<lb/> and expense by <lb/> waste of time seriously<lb/> prejudicial, tell him<lb/> so. </p> | |||
<p>But if not, avoid<lb/> laying anything that<lb/> can tent do discourage<lb/> him.</p> | |||
<p>On the contrary, say<lb/> what appears to you,<lb/> so it be consistent<lb/> with truth, likely to <lb/> encourage him.</p> | |||
<p>Hold up to his view<lb/> the considerations wh<add>h</add><lb/> tend to probabilize <lb/> success: not bringing<lb/> out spontaneously<lb/> any the tendency of<lb/> which is to disprobablize<lb/> it.</p> | |||
<p>More particularly<lb/> if success would<lb/> in your view be upon<lb/> the whole beneficial<lb/> to himself and mankind<lb/> at large.<lb/></p> | |||
<p>If in this case you<lb/> represent success<lb/> as improbably, you <lb/> will hurt his feelings<lb/> without any possible <lb/> good. If he on his part<lb/> contend in favour of<lb/> probability of success,<lb/> you will appear to him<lb/> in the character of a<lb/> person making pretension<lb/> to superior<lb/> wisdom, & holding<lb/> him in contempt in<lb/> the character of a self-<lb/>deceiver.</p> | |||
<p>Whereas want of<lb/> judgement may be<lb/> evidenced as well, by <lb/> regarding success<lb/> as improbable where<lb/> it is probable, as by <lb/>regarding it as probable<lb/> when it is improbable.</p> | |||
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From detached scrap.
6.
If you find a man
engaged in a pursuit
in which success is hopeless,
and expense by
waste of time seriously
prejudicial, tell him
so.
But if not, avoid
laying anything that
can tent do discourage
him.
On the contrary, say
what appears to you,
so it be consistent
with truth, likely to
encourage him.
Hold up to his view
the considerations whh
tend to probabilize
success: not bringing
out spontaneously
any the tendency of
which is to disprobablize
it.
More particularly
if success would
in your view be upon
the whole beneficial
to himself and mankind
at large.
If in this case you
represent success
as improbably, you
will hurt his feelings
without any possible
good. If he on his part
contend in favour of
probability of success,
you will appear to him
in the character of a
person making pretension
to superior
wisdom, & holding
him in contempt in
the character of a self-
deceiver.
Whereas want of
judgement may be
evidenced as well, by
regarding success
as improbable where
it is probable, as by
regarding it as probable
when it is improbable.
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f175 |
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sir john bowring |
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