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For whether the passion of self-interest be esteemed vicious or virtuous, it is all a case; since itself alone restrains it: So that if it be virtuous, men become social by their virtue; if vicious, their vice has the same effect. Where these angry passions rise up to cruelty, they form the most detested of all vices. For whatever may be the case, with regard to all kinds of vice and virtue, it is certain, that rights, and obligations, and property, admit of no such insensible gradation, but that a man either has a full and perfect property, or none at all; and is either entirely obliged to perform any action, or lies under no manner of obligation. PART I OF VIRTUE AND VICE IN GENERAL To which we may add, that this agreement or disagreement, not admitting of degrees, all virtues and vices would of course be equal. And though our judgments concerning the origin of any vice or virtue, be not so certain as those concerning their degrees; yet, since the question in this case regards not any philosophical origin of an obligation, but a plain matter of fact, it is not easily conceived how we can fall into an error. (*1)Get Your Green Card - Standard fee is $35. Register Before October 20, 2001 and get the special $5 discount. To continue the experiment, I change anew the relation of ideas, and suppose the vice to belong to myself.