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According to this system, then, every animal, that has sense, and appetite, and will; that is, every animal must be susceptible of all the same virtues and vices, for which we ascribe praise and blame to human creatures. As seen on Around the World! For these reasons the former qualities are esteemed virtues, and the latter regarded as vices. 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. The vice entirely escapes you, as long as you consider the object. Now it has been observed, that our own sensations determine the vice and virtue of any quality, as well as those sensations, which it may excite in others. The virtue and vice must be part of our character in order to excite pride or humility. It may now be proper to illustrate this general system of morals, by applying it to particular instances of virtue and vice, and shewing how their merit or demerit arises from the four sources here explained. In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery.