In their currently popular connotations, the words “virtue” and “vice” have extremely limited significance. Virtue tends to be identified with chastity or at least with conformity to the prevailing standards of sexual behavior. The popular notion of vice retains a little more of the traditional meaning, insofar as it implies injury to a person’s character or health as the result of strong habitual addictions. But, as in the case of virtue, the things which are popularly