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The very essence of virtue, according to this hypothesis, is to produce pleasure and that of vice to give pain. SECT. I OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NATURAL VIRTUES AND VICES That faculty of the soul, which, of all others, is of the least consequence to the character, and has the least virtue or vice in its several degrees, at the same time, that it admits of a great variety of degrees, is the memory. 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.