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If this be allowed with respect to extension and number, we can make no difficulty with respect to virtue and vice, wit and folly, riches and poverty, happiness and misery, and other objects of that kind, which are always attended with an evident emotion. From this principle I conclude, that the first virtuous motive, which bestows a merit on any action, can never be a regard to the virtue of that action. So here is what we have to offer you: Vice, when placed on another, excites, by means of its double relations, the passion of hatred, instead of love, which for the same reason arises from virtue. But that reason, according to this hypothesis, discovers also vice and virtue. In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery. It is a general remark, that those we call good women's men, who have either signalized themselves by their amorous exploits, or whose make of body promises any extraordinary vigour of that kind, are well received by the fair sex, and naturally engage the affections even of those, whose virtue prevents any design of ever giving employment to those talents. The uneasiness and satisfaction are not only inseparable from vice and virtue, but constitute their very nature and essence. In giving a reason, therefore, for the pleasure or uneasiness, we sufficiently explain the vice or virtue. SECT. I JUSTICE, WHETHER A NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL VIRTUE?