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If you assent, therefore, to this last proposition, and assert, that justice and injustice are not susceptible of degrees, you in effect assert, that they are not naturally either vicious or virtuous; since vice and virtue, moral good and evil, and indeed all natural qualities, run insensibly into each other, and are, on many occasions, undistinguishable. The first is the conjunction of a particular state with another preceding it in the world of sense, the former following the latter by virtue of a law. The same truth may be proved still more evidently by that reasoning, which proved justice in general to be an artificial virtue. It belongs to Grammarians to examine what qualities are entitled to the denomination of virtue; nor will they find, upon trial, that this is so easy a task, as at first sight they may be apt to imagine. This is part of our job-to introduce you to many others who took a step of faith (like you're ready to), and whose lives have changed because of it. In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery. Nor will this reasoning be advantageous to us only by shewing, that the distinction of vice and virtue arises from the four principles of the advantage and of the pleasure of the person himself, and of others: But may also afford us a strong proof of some under-parts of that hypothesis. Those who resolve the sense of morals into original instincts of the human mind, may defend the cause of virtue with sufficient authority; but want the advantage, which those possess, who account for that sense by an extensive sympathy with mankind.