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- But supposing this hypothesis of moral philosophy should be allowed to be false, it is still evident, that pain and pleasure, if not the causes of vice and virtue, are at least inseparable from them.
For the notion of injury or injustice implies an immorality or vice committed against some other person: And as every immorality is derived from some defect or unsoundness of the passions, and as this defect must be judged of, in a great measure, from the ordinary course of nature in the constitution of the mind; it will be easy to know, whether we be guilty of any immorality, with regard to others, by considering the natural, and usual force of those several affections, which are directed towards them. I am going to let you in on SECRET now. In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery. The virtue of a brother must make me love him; as his vice or infamy must excite the contrary passion.