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Civil Introd. 3

6. Virtue. Virtue is one of those names of figurative
entities beings, which have no signification in themselves: no signification unless converted
into an adjective, and that adjective coupled with another
substantive.

A or The disposition of that man may be termed
virtuous, in proportion to the energy with which at the expence of present
self-denial were it necessary, he is disposed to act upon occasion in subserviency
to the happiness of the community of which whose its
happiness is in question.

Virtue of the self-regarding kind, Virtue considered with relation to the happiness of the
individual whose disposition is spoken of as virtuous is referable to the
head of prudence: virtue of the extra-regarding kind, virtue considered with relation to the
happiness of other individuals or that of the community
at large is referable to the head of probity. In
respect of neither branch is it of any virtue, or respect
of neither branch in a has it any claim to the
care of the legislator, except in as far as it is has
a claim to the appellation of an entitled to the instrument of security. We have seen the different
shapes that damage, and consequently thereby security against
damage is capable of assuming liable to assume: in all those cases
it is equally capable of resulting it may result from the conduct act of a third person,
or from the act of the individual himself on whom it falls by whom
it is considered as being sustained. That branch of
virtue which goes by the name of prudence is an
instrument

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