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Being fully convinced of the influence of this relation, I try the effects of the other; and by changing virtue for vice, convert the pleasant impression, which arises from the former, into the disagreeable one, which proceeds from the latter. As to the third sense of the word, it is certain, that both vice and virtue are equally artificial, and out of nature. A sense of duty supposes an antecedent obligation: And where an action is not required by any natural passion, it cannot be required by any natural obligation; since it may be omitted without proving any defect or imperfection in the mind and temper, and consequently without any vice. For, first, there are other virtues and vices beside those which have this tendency to the public advantage and loss. Why are they so upset? The very essence of virtue, according to this hypothesis, is to produce pleasure and that of vice to give pain.