BOOK III PART I
among our pains and pleasures. Pride and hu-
mility, love and hatred are excited, when there
is any thing presented to us, that both bears a
relation to the object of the passion, and pro-
duces a separate sensation related to the sen-
sation of the passion. Now virtue and vice
are attended with these circumstances. They
must necessarily be placed either in ourselves
or others, and excite either pleasure or un-
easiness; and therefore must give rise to one
of these four passions; which clearly distin-
guishes them from the pleasure and pain aris-
ing 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.
It may now be asked in general, concerning
this pain or pleasure, that distinguishes moral