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In another sense of the word; as no principle of the human mind is more natural than a sense of virtue; so no virtue is more natural than justice. Thus the good and bad qualities of our actions and manners constitute virtue and vice, and determine our personal character, than which nothing operates more strongly on these passions. They must necessarily be placed either in ourselves or others, and excite either pleasure or uneasiness; and therefore must give rise to one of these four passions; which clearly distinguishes them from the pleasure and pain arising from inanimate objects, that often bear no relation to us: And this is, perhaps, the most considerable effect that virtue and vice have upon the human mind. Through out the Holidays and especially the last year, every thing that we have seen on Television and heard on the Radio has either started or ended with www. The very essence of virtue, according to this hypothesis, is to produce pleasure and that of vice to give pain. On the other hand, we understand by nature, substantive (materialiter), the sum total of phenomena, in so far as they, by virtue of an internal principle of causality, are connected with each other throughout. Encrease to a sufficient degree the benevolence of men, or the bounty of nature, and you render justice useless, by supplying its place with much nobler virtues, and more valuable blessings. In general we may observe, that whatever we call heroic virtue, and admire under the character of greatness and elevation of mind, is either nothing but a steady and wellestablished pride and self-esteem, or partakes largely of that passion. As to the good or ill desert of virtue or vice, it is an evident consequence of the sentiments of pleasure or uneasiness.