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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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The virtue of a brother must make me love him; as his vice or infamy must excite the contrary passion.

 This, no doubt, is to be regarded as an idle fiction; but yet deserves our attention, because nothing can more evidently shew the origin of those virtues, which are the subjects of our present enquiry. But as authors do not commonly use this precaution, I shall presume to recommend it to the readers; and am persuaded, that this small attention would subvert all the vulgar systems of morality, and let us see, that the distinction of vice and virtue is not founded merely on the relations of objects, nor is perceived by reason.  PART I OF VIRTUE AND VICE IN GENERAL To have the sense of virtue, is nothing but to feel a satisfaction of a particular kind from the contemplation of a character.