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The discussion of this question will be more proper, when we enter upon an exact detail of each particular vice and virtue. and having never considered human nature in any other light, than that in which they place it, may here be surprized to hear me talk of virtue as exciting pride, which they look upon as a vice; and of vice as producing humility, which they have been taught to consider as a virtue. Secondly, I would have anyone give me a reason, why virtue and vice may not be involuntary, as well as beauty and deformity. For, first, there are other virtues and vices beside those which have this tendency to the public advantage and loss. Millions of overweight folks are frustrated. 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. SECT. I OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NATURAL VIRTUES AND VICES Besides, the commerce of mankind is not confined to the barter of commodities, but may extend to services and actions, which we may exchange to our mutual interest and advantage. The virtue of a brother must make me love him; as his vice or infamy must excite the contrary passion.