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An action must be virtuous, before we can have a regard to its virtue. To have the sense of virtue, is nothing but to feel a satisfaction of a particular kind from the contemplation of a character. Thus the course of the argument leads us to conclude, that since vice and virtue are not discoverable merely by reason, or the comparison of ideas, it must be by means of some impression or sentiment they occasion, that we are able to mark the difference betwixt them. But if the success be on our side, our commander has all the opposite good qualities, and is a pattern of virtue, as well as of courage and conduct. But this standard is the idea of virtue, in relation to which all possible objects of experience are indeed serviceable as examples--proofs of the practicability in a certain degree of that which the conception of virtue demands--but certainly not as archetypes. We merely anticipate our own apprehension, the formal condition of which, inasmuch as it is itself to be found in the mind antecedently to all given phenomena, must certainly be capable of being cognized a priorI. Thus, as time contains the sensuous condition a priori of the possibility of a continuous progression of that which exists to that which follows it, the understanding, by virtue of the unity of apperception, contains the condition a priori of the possibility of a continuous determination of the position in time of all phenomena, and this by means of the series of causes and effects, the former of which necessitate the sequence of the latter, and thereby render universally and for all time, and by consequence, objectively, valid the empirical cognition of the relations of time. This creates the strongest concentration of human phero-mones legally available anywhere! THIS IS THE ONLY PHERO-MONE OIL PROVEN TO REALLY WORK! SECT. V SOME FARTHER REFLECTIONS CONCERNING THE NATURAL VIRTUES But this, in my opinion, is not a sufficient reason for excluding them from the catalogue of virtues.