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The virtue or vice of a son or brother not only excites love or hatred, but by a new transition, from similar causes, gives rise to pride or humility. Where these angry passions rise up to cruelty, they form the most detested of all vices. The uneasiness and satisfaction are not only inseparable from vice and virtue, but constitute their very nature and essence. Thus the course of the argument leads us to conclude, that since vice and virtue are not discoverable merely by reason, or the comparison of ideas, it must be by means of some impression or sentiment they occasion, that we are able to mark the difference betwixt them. 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. If you assert, that vice and virtue consist in relations susceptible of certainty and demonstration, you must confine yourself to those four relations, which alone admit of that degree of evidence; and in that case you run into absurdities, from which you will never be able to extricate yourself. PART III OF THE OTHER VIRTUES AND VICES Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy.