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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.

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For in the first sense of the word, Nature, as opposed to miracles, both vice and virtue are equally natural; and in the second sense, as opposed to what is unusual, perhaps virtue will be found to be the most unnatural.

 SECT. I OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NATURAL VIRTUES AND VICES 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. To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal. 
  • But that reason, according to this hypothesis, discovers also vice and virtue.
 The virtue and vice must be part of our character in order to excite pride or humility. To continue the experiment, I change anew the relation of ideas, and suppose the vice to belong to myself. If nature be opposed to miracles, not only the distinction betwixt vice and virtue is natural, but also every event, which has ever happened in the world, EXCEPTING THOSE MIRACLES, ON WHICH OUR RELIGION IS FOUNDED. You will bring back to life weddings, birthdays, holidays, graduations and more.