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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. We partake of their uneasiness by sympathy; and as every thing, which gives uneasiness in human actions, upon the general survey, is called Vice, and whatever produces satisfaction, in the same manner, is denominated Virtue; this is the reason why the sense of moral good and evil follows upon justice and injustice. An action must be virtuous, before we can have a regard to its virtue. A very play or romance may afford us instances of this pleasure, which virtue conveys to us; and pain, which arises from vice. This is the letter you have may have been hearing about on the news. But to this I answer, first, that many of those qualities, which all moralists, especially the antients, comprehend under the title of moral virtues, are equally involuntary and necessary, with the qualities of the judgment and imagination. It is the same case, if justice, according to the system of certain philosophers, should be esteemed an artificial and not a natural virtue.