Is it plausible that we should, as a priority, eliminate hazards caused by malice?
In fact, there is not very much evidence of over-enthusiastic exclusion, for ignorance, malice or sin.
The 1559 royal injunctions specified only sin and malice.
The general style here has something of the air of a 'petite malice' about it.
However, other virtues and vices such as honesty and malice are not relative in this respect.
However, recorded exclusion on any ground was less frequent after 1604 : even if ignorance became rarer, it is hard to believe that sin and malice did too.
If its actions are to be viewed as deliberate deception to cover its own malice, then the court moved more cannily than it is generally given credit for.
The other is that she or he does not cause harm as a purely practical means of gaining greater wealth or prestige, but from motives of malice and spite.
