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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. PART III OF THE OTHER VIRTUES AND VICES 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. In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery. In the former example, my perceptions in the apprehension of a house might begin at the roof and end at the foundation, or vice versa; or I might apprehend the manifold in this empirical intuition, by going from left to right, and from right to left. 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. The booty call is on and these beauties deliver. The virtue or vice of a son or brother not only excites love or hatred, but by a new transition, from similar causes, gives rise to pride or humility. Now virtue and vice are attended with these circumstances.