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What a special way to welcome a child of God. We shall begin with examining the passions of pride and humility, and shall consider the vice or virtue that lies in their excesses or just proportion. Nor will this reasoning be advantageous to us only by shewing, that the distinction of vice and virtue arises from the four principles of the advantage and of the pleasure of the person himself, and of others: But may also afford us a strong proof of some under-parts of that hypothesis. In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery. In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery. SECT. VII OF VICE AND VIRTUE Wherever we can make an idea approach the impressions in force and vivacity, it will likewise imitate them in its influence on the mind; and vice versa, where it imitates them in that influence, as in the present case, this must proceed from its approaching them in force and vivacity. We come now to the examination of such virtues and vices as are entirely natural, and have no dependance on the artifice and contrivance of men.