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It may now be proper to illustrate this general system of morals, by applying it to particular instances of virtue and vice, and shewing how their merit or demerit arises from the four sources here explained. As to the good or ill desert of virtue or vice, it is an evident consequence of the sentiments of pleasure or uneasiness. Thus the course of the argument leads us to conclude, that since vice and virtue are not discoverable merely by reason, or the comparison of ideas, it must be by means of some impression or sentiment they occasion, that we are able to mark the difference betwixt them. The virtue of a brother must make me love him; as his vice or infamy must excite the contrary passion. 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. The uneasiness and satisfaction are not only inseparable from vice and virtue, but constitute their very nature and essence. We shall begin with examining the passions of pride and humility, and shall consider the vice or virtue that lies in their excesses or just proportion. 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. J T C is the largest firm in the world specializing in the purchase and collection of Judicial Judgements.