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imd ^ iOititWe < AW , by ^ nwst , if mjfcTOtirelyj 6 vet ) mkto % ti&mttiftto whifcV pramion i&JKfade for benevolepoe w / tb # Swtiflut «« i «| ijwi >^ indop « Dcieiit of any etpectatiofi of personal i * dv *» tager fr * m tfcfcljgoo * opinion or gratitude of : others , Th * highest ban&Jpkn < te v or rftthe ^ tbjit which , alone deserves the name , feed * on the happiness of Otfefftt ; 3 % actually vvitneased ^ or as realized by the imagination ^ and ia weH icpii * tent ^ j Ui t ^ e fulness of Jthi ^ Xelicity ^ to go without any extei * nal ^^ rqf or recom |^ en ce . But of this true virtue there are but few and faint giimcse ? . either ; in ' Deontology * or in Minor Morals . ' A lower and dortpaftottvety Worldly ^ one is adopted . 'Thus , in describing the selfish man , wi
ate told that * fi ^ wlll hot do another man a service if he can help it , because he fancies thaft iri doing a service without an immediate return , he is giving something away in waste . He forgets that he obtains for the service the de * uie to do him other services . He forgets that the gratitude of others is fertile ia acts of kindness . '—p . 184 . .. ' . "
The converse is , by implication , the author ' s notion of a beaeyolejpt man . It is not our * . Were a man to do a Bervice because secure of an ultimate % though not an ' immediate return / and were he to remember that trie service purchased other services to himself , and excited a £ i ** £ tV tude that wdutd be ' fertile in acts of kindness , ' we cannot peroeiV ^ nire he trduld be less selfish , though he might be more long-headed . l 5 b # fi he , or does he not , find his own happiness in promoting the , faapriiriess ofolhera ? that is the test , we conceive , of benevolence or selfishness .
ft is rrot that the benevolent man makes the calculation of perSOrfat advantages more cojfrectjy , but that in consequence of his different mental and moral state there is another and most important element to enter into the calculation . Dr . Bowring ' s benevolent man thinks that Benevolence i » the best selfish calculation , that he realizesiho + ebif Ht than he could do by an J other habit . He finds that he gets great interest
upon oil the outlay qf his friendl y and generousfeelings ' . —p . 18 6 . This is the moral which Mr . Howard teaches his daughter . * " Do you understand my meaning , my gentle Edith ? *' - >• " IqcUeA * papa , I think I do . You mean that we do not get : anything by beiujr ^ > & * fiatuved ; but that we get something by being kind and good . 1 '— -p . 1 & 3 * r .. And again , when the children show a moral instinct which is much above their father ' s philosophyf it is thus repressed :
• " But , papa / ' said George , " you said that kindness brought back kind ntft * in return * may notkindnew sometimes fail in doing so ? " * ( Well asked , little boy ; and for ' sometimes * you might haVe * a ! d * often / You might have asked your papa how Benthanr hims ^ Jf fa ^ cl ; or , indeed , most of the world ' s best friends and benefactor ^ . ) . ' ; i * - Safely , « " ^ i ^ p ! id Mr . Howard , bttt thehatit of kindhess wW / heVeif fttil f WAh th # ha ^ t yw know is the remilt of a « tt . - * ' f «
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 689, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/61/
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