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Secondly, I would have anyone give me a reason, why virtue and vice may not be involuntary, as well as beauty and deformity. 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. But however directly the distinction of vice and virtue may seem to flow from the immediate pleasure or uneasiness, which particular qualities cause to ourselves or others; it is easy to observe, that it has also a considerable dependence on the principle of sympathy so often insisted on. When we blame any action, in any situation, the whole complicated object, of action and situation, must form certain relations, wherein the essence of vice consists. The virtue of a brother must make me love him; as his vice or infamy must excite the contrary passion. We come now to the examination of such virtues and vices as are entirely natural, and have no dependance on the artifice and contrivance of men. 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.