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Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy. 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. 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. All the difference is, that our superior reason may serve to discover the vice or virtue, and by that means may augment the blame or praise: But still this discovery supposes a separate being in these moral distinctions, and a being, which depends only on the will and appetite, and which, both in thought and reality, may be distinguished from the reason. Your FREE lifetime membership has entertained my boyfriend and I for the last two years! 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. 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.