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Virtue and wisdom in their perfect purity are ideas. 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. But this, in my opinion, is not a sufficient reason for excluding them from the catalogue of virtues. In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery. Whether this virtue of humility has been rightly understood, I shall not pretend to determine. Whether this virtue of humility has been rightly understood, I shall not pretend to determine. Now justice is a moral virtue, merely because it has that tendency to the good of mankind; and, indeed, is nothing but an artificial invention to that purpose. Perhaps it will appear afterwards, that our sense of some virtues is artificial, and that of others natural.