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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. Now it has been observed, that our own sensations determine the vice and virtue of any quality, as well as those sensations, which it may excite in others. We shall begin with examining the passions of pride and humility, and shall consider the vice or virtue that lies in their excesses or just proportion. It may now be proper to illustrate this general system of morals, by applying it to particular instances of virtue and vice, and shewing how their merit or demerit arises from the four sources here explained. The uneasiness and satisfaction are not only inseparable from vice and virtue, but constitute their very nature and essence. Where these angry passions rise up to cruelty, they form the most detested of all vices. The very essence of virtue, according to this hypothesis, is to produce pleasure and that of vice to give pain.