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SECT. VII OF VICE AND VIRTUE Ideas always represent their objects or impressions; and vice versa, there are some objects necessary to give rise to every idea. Whether we ascribe our esteem of the rich and great to one or all of these causes, we may clearly see the traces of those principles, which give rise to the sense of vice and virtue. We have training being conducted in over 27 different languages worldwide! For these reasons the former qualities are esteemed virtues, and the latter regarded as vices. Now, as a like uncertainty and variety of causes take place, even in natural objects, and produce a like error in our judgment, if that tendency to produce error were the very essence of vice and immorality, it should follow, that even inanimate objects might be vicious and immoral. If you assert, that vice and virtue consist in relations susceptible of certainty and demonstration, you must confine yourself to those four relations, which alone admit of that degree of evidence; and in that case you run into absurdities, from which you will never be able to extricate yourself.