We must here content ourselves with stating that it is on this principle of disinterested action, belonging to our nature, that he founds the chief part of our sentiment of Moral Approbation.
Section VI.

takes into the account QUALITIES USEFUL TO OURSELVES.

We praise in individuals the qualities useful to themselves, and are pleased with the happiness flowing to individuals by their own conduct.
This can be no selfish motive on our part.

For example, DISCRETION, so necessary to the accomplishing of any useful enterprise, is commended; that measured union of enterprise and caution found in great commanders, is a subject of highest admiration; and why?
For the usefulness, or the success that it brings.

What need is there to display the praises of INDUSTRY, or of FRUGALITY, virtues useful to the possessor in the first instance?
Then the qualities of HONESTY, FIDELITY, and TRUTH, are praised, in the first place, for their tendency to the good of society; and, being established on that foundation, they are also approved as advantageous to the individual's own self.