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Mean while it may not be amiss to observe from these definitions of natural and unnatural, that nothing can be more unphilosophical than those systems, which assert, that virtue is the same with what is natural, and vice with what is unnatural. Why we annex the idea of virtue to justice, and of vice to injustice. If belief consisted only in a certain vivacity, conveyed from an original impression, it would decay by the length of the transition, and must at last be utterly extinguished: And vice versa, if belief on some occasions be not capable of such an extinction; it must be something different from that vivacity. This naturally gives us an uneasiness, in considering such seditious and disloyal actions, and makes us attach to them the idea of vice and moral deformity. The vice entirely escapes you, as long as you consider the object. Ideas always represent their objects or impressions; and vice versa, there are some objects necessary to give rise to every idea. The virtue and vice must be part of our character in order to excite pride or humility.