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As to the third sense of the word, it is certain, that both vice and virtue are equally artificial, and out of nature. The discussion of this question will be more proper, when we enter upon an exact detail of each particular vice and virtue. And indeed we may observe, that the natural abilities, no more than the other virtues, produce not, all of them, the same kind of approbation. Virtue is considered as means to an end. These actions are properly what we call justice; and consequently it is on that virtue that the nature of property depends, and not the virtue on the property. 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 pain and pleasure, therefore, being the primary causes of vice and virtue, must also be the causes of all their effects, and consequently of pride and humility, which are the unavoidable attendants of that distinction. Mean while it may not be amiss to observe from these definitions of natural and unnatural, that nothing can be more unphilosophical than those systems, which assert, that virtue is the same with what is natural, and vice with what is unnatural.