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In The imputation of motive is one of the most dangerous weapons
with which to attack an adversary and one of the most
grounds for judgement - since motives can be known when alone where
conduct is in question—& can only be guessed at by other persons. By
This distinction on the part of the impugner or the approver of
conductan act to esteem it praiseworthy or blameworthy not according to its
results but to the unknowable intention of the maywilldestinyat least all the
imputation of virtuous conduct may be farther away by the insinuation that
the motives were bad,—of all the desreputableness of punishment
of vicious conduct by the setting forth the goodness of the motives that
led to it. But on the other hand, it should not be forgotten that
unfounded imputation is not mala fide invented by him who first
casts it. A measure is deemed to be wrong where it is opposed
to the intercut of another-and if wrong in the eye of that office, it
is but natural that he should attribute it to a wrong motive.
Hence to avoid the attributing motives to others, & to avoid rude or hasty
& uncandid condemnation of those who do attribute motives
to others are alike the dictates of uncertainty

Then again &c

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	359	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f34+
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[top of motif]]]
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