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Of this kind I assert justice to be; and shall endeavour to defend this opinion by a short, and, I hope, convincing argument, before I examine the nature of the artifice, from which the sense of that virtue is derived. In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery. This relation it will be impossible for me fully to explain before I come to treat of justice and the other moral virtues. We fancy Ourselves more happy, as well as more virtuous or beautiful, when we appear so to others; but are still more ostentatious of our virtues than of our pleasures. But this, in my opinion, is not a sufficient reason for excluding them from the catalogue of virtues. At least it must be owned, that heroic virtue, being as unusual, is as little natural as the most brutal barbarity. Some moralists account for all the sentiments of virtue by this sense. Being fully convinced of the influence of this relation, I try the effects of the other; and by changing virtue for vice, convert the pleasant impression, which arises from the former, into the disagreeable one, which proceeds from the latter.