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Indirect Legislation § 5

Benevolence

but in a great degree at least supposing it not to be if not altogether
so altogether it is the wor fruit of cultivation
produce of industry, the cultivated fruit of education.
Observe Enquire also when and where the greatest
measure of benevolence is to be found: in France
or Britain or in New Zeala among the Iroquois: in the infancy
of society, or in its maturity. Now then in as
far as it is the gift of nature only, it is and
must be what it is: whether the natural measure of it
can be lessen'd or no, at any rate it can not
be encreased. If it be [increasable by cultivation] capable of being encreased by culture
cultivation suceptible of encrease it can only be by means of some one
or other of the remaining principles which are
to be found in human nature: but these are
either self-regarding or at best but semi-social:
of which latter number is that of the love of
reputation. Let a man moralist then sound the
praises of benevolence: let him set this of affection
in an amiable, and the opposite one in
an odious, point of view: what then is he doing?
it is by the force of this half-selfish principle
the love of reputation that he is cherishing and
invigorating the purely social principle. Let his
endeavour

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	027	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
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