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In like manner we always consider the natural and usual force of the passions, when we determine concerning vice and virtue; and if the passions depart very much from the common measures on either side, they are always disapproved as vicious. and having never considered human nature in any other light, than that in which they place it, may here be surprized to hear me talk of virtue as exciting pride, which they look upon as a vice; and of vice as producing humility, which they have been taught to consider as a virtue. If any one, therefore, would assert, that justice is a natural virtue, and injustice a natural vice, he must assert, that abstracting from the nations of property, and right and obligation, a certain conduct and train of actions, in certain external relations of objects, has naturally a moral beauty or deformity, and causes an original pleasure or uneasiness. The SOFTWARE They Wanted BANNED In all 50 States! We come now to the examination of such virtues and vices as are entirely natural, and have no dependance on the artifice and contrivance of men. SECT. VII OF VICE AND VIRTUE Though we refuse to natural abilities the title of virtues, we must allow, that they procure the love and esteem of mankind; that they give a new lustre to the other virtues; and that a man possessed of them is much more intitled to our good-will and services, than one entirely void of them. The virtue of a brother must make me love him; as his vice or infamy must excite the contrary passion. Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy. Secondly, I would have anyone give me a reason, why virtue and vice may not be involuntary, as well as beauty and deformity.