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I must farther add, that there are several circumstances, which render this hypothesis much more probable with regard to the natural than the artificial virtues. and having never considered human nature in any other light, than that in which they place it, may here be surprized to hear me talk of virtue as exciting pride, which they look upon as a vice; and of vice as producing humility, which they have been taught to consider as a virtue. But our proof shows that external experience is properly immediate,* that only by virtue of it--not, indeed, the consciousness of our own existence, but certainly the determination of our existence in time, that is, internal experience--is possible. This is the ultimate test of merit and virtue. - In like manner we always consider the natural and usual force of the passions, when we determine concerning vice and virtue; and if the passions depart very much from the common measures on either side, they are always disapproved as vicious.
SECT. I OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NATURAL VIRTUES AND VICES