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by contempt expressed for the tastes of another. For taste
there can be standard. To you such an object of sight is
beautiful – to another it is offensive. How can you estimate
the causes which in his mind have associated with pain
that which you deem pleasurable? To you such
and such an assemblage of sounds, is harmonious &
attractive. To another they seem discordant – they
afford no pleasure gratification. What mischief results to
you, – or to mankind from that difference of opinion?
In what possible way is any one injured from the circumstance
that certain colors, – or forms – or melodies do not make exactly similar
impressions on the senses of different individuals? If
you feel contempt for the judgment of another on such topics, – it is your
misfortune – if you express it, – it is your offence
Abstential benevolence can need not prevent your forming adopting
the opinions which seem to you best founded, – but
abstential benevolence requires you should not so
express them as to give needless pain to others.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	496	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f181
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[top of motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	5712
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