BOOK II PART I
reflecting on a generous action; and it is by
none esteemed a virtue to feel any fruitless re-
morses upon the thoughts of past villainy and
baseness. Let us, therefore, examine these im-
pressions, considered in themselves; and en-
quire into their causes, whether placed on the
mind or body, without troubling ourselves at
present with that merit or blame, which may
attend them.