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Secondly, I would have anyone give me a reason, why virtue and vice may not be involuntary, as well as beauty and deformity. Each of the virtues, even benevolence, justice, gratitude. Reason and judgment may, indeed, be the mediate cause of an action, by prompting, or by directing a passion: But it is not pretended, that a judgment of this kind, either in its truth or falshood, is attended with virtue or vice.