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As to the good or ill desert of virtue or vice, it is an evident consequence of the sentiments of pleasure or uneasiness. For, first, there are other virtues and vices beside those which have this tendency to the public advantage and loss. If you assert, that vice and virtue consist in relations susceptible of certainty and demonstration, you must confine yourself to those four relations, which alone admit of that degree of evidence; and in that case you run into absurdities, from which you will never be able to extricate yourself. For these reasons the former qualities are esteemed virtues, and the latter regarded as vices. Whether we ascribe our esteem of the rich and great to one or all of these causes, we may clearly see the traces of those principles, which give rise to the sense of vice and virtue. It is more natural, therefore, to think, that the tendencies of the latter virtue will affect our sentiments, and command our approbation, than those of the former; and therefore, since we find, that the approbation of the former arises from their tendencies, we may ascribe, with better reason, the same cause to the approbation of the latter. For more information on these services please visit. To suppose, that the mere regard to the virtue of the action. To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal. Suppose, that instead of the virtue or vice of a son or brother, which causes first love or hatred, and afterwards pride or humility, we place these good or bad qualities on ourselves, without any immediate connexion with the person, who is related to us: Experience shews us, that by this change of situation the whole chain is broke, and that the mind is not conveyed from one passion to another, as in the preceding instance.