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The passions do not always follow our corrections; but these corrections serve sufficiently to regulate our abstract notions, and are alone regarded, when we pronounce in general concerning the degrees of vice and virtue. OUR XXX TEEN MOVIES WILL HAVE YOU GLUED FOR HOURS !" SECT. VII OF VICE AND VIRTUE The pain and pleasure, therefore, being the primary causes of vice and virtue, must also be the causes of all their effects, and consequently of pride and humility, which are the unavoidable attendants of that distinction. SECT. I OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NATURAL VIRTUES AND VICES The uneasiness and satisfaction are not only inseparable from vice and virtue, but constitute their very nature and essence. But if we are called upon to explain what we mean by substance, and wish to avoid the vice of reasoning in a circle, the answer is by no means so easy. Any great elevation of place communicates a kind of pride or sublimity of imagination, and gives a fancyed superiority over those that lie below; and, vice versa, a sublime and strong imagination conveys the idea of ascent and elevation. Even when the vice of inhumanity rises not to this extreme degree, our sentiments concerning it are very much influenced by reflections on the harm that results from it. The uneasiness and satisfaction are not only inseparable from vice and virtue, but constitute their very nature and essence.