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No quality in another gives rise to humility by comparison, unless it would have produced pride by being placed in ourselves; and vice versa no object excites pride by comparison, unless it would have produced humility by the direct survey. SECT. I OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NATURAL VIRTUES AND VICES 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. 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. PART III OF THE OTHER VIRTUES AND VICES The discussion of this question will be more proper, when we enter upon an exact detail of each particular vice and virtue. If belief consisted only in a certain vivacity, conveyed from an original impression, it would decay by the length of the transition, and must at last be utterly extinguished: And vice versa, if belief on some occasions be not capable of such an extinction; it must be something different from that vivacity.