BOOK III PART III
SECTIONV. SOMEFARTHERREFLECTIONS
CONCERNING THENATURALVIRTUES
It has been observed, in treating of the pas-
sions, that pride and humility, love and hatred,
are excited by any advantages or disadvan-
tages of the mind, body, or fortune; and that
these advantages or disadvantages have that
effect by producing a separate impression of
pain or pleasure. The pain or pleasure, which
arises from the general survey or view of any
action or quality of the mind, constitutes its
vice or virtue, and gives rise to our approbation
or blame, which is nothing but a fainter and
more imperceptible love or hatred. We have
assigned four different sources of this pain and
pleasure; and in order to justify more fully that
hypothesis, it may here be proper to observe,
that the advantages or disadvantages of the