But in considering conduct and character, and forming an opinion upon infractions of a virtue, we cannot be just unless we have analysed its conditions, and this is what the eighteenth century did defectively with regard to that particular virtue which so often usurps the name of all of the virtues together.
Morley reflects on the importance of understanding the conditions of virtues in order to form just opinions about conduct and character.
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