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To that principle, therefore, we are to ascribe the sentiment of approbation, which arises from the survey of all those virtues, that are useful to society, or to the person possessed of them. - In like manner, the approbation. which attends natural abilities, may be somewhat different to the feeling from that, which arises from the other virtues, without making them entirely of a different species.
These qualities, therefore, being agreeable, they naturally beget love and esteem, and answer to all the characters of virtue. These actions are properly what we call justice; and consequently it is on that virtue that the nature of property depends, and not the virtue on the property. SECT. V SOME FARTHER REFLECTIONS CONCERNING THE NATURAL VIRTUES Without such a convention, no one would ever have dreamed, that there was such a virtue as justice, or have been induced to conform his actions to it. But to make the matter still more certain, I alter the object; and instead of vice and virtue, make the trial upon beauty and deformity, riches and poverty, power and servitude. No virtue is more esteemed than justice, and no vice more detested than injustice; nor are there any qualities, which go farther to the fixing the character, either as amiable or odious. Our own virtues produce not first pride, and then love to a friend or brother; because the passage in that case would be from contiguous to remote, contrary to its propensity.