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This permanence is, however, nothing but the manner in which we represent to ourselves the existence of things in the phenomenal world. But we cannot cogitate it as a thing determinable by certain distinct predicates relating to its internal nature, for it has no connection with empirical conceptions; nor are we justified in affirming the existence of any such object. If, accordingly, an object which must be regarded as a sensuous phenomenon possesses a faculty which is not an object of sensuous intuition, but by means of which it is capable of being the cause of phenomena, the causality of an object or existence of this kind may be regarded from two different points of view. A passion is an original existence, or, if you will, modification of existence, and contains not any representative quality, which renders it a copy of any other existence or modification. All those objects, of which we call the one cause and the other effect, considered in themselves, are as distinct and separate from each other, as any two things in nature, nor can we ever, by the most accurate survey of them, infer the existence of the one from that of the other. But if we believe that everything in the world--be it condition or conditioned--is contingent; every given existence is too small for our conception. There is no object, which implies the existence of any other if we consider these objects in themselves, and never look beyond the ideas which we form of them. But it is not only where good or evil is uncertain, as to its existence, but also as to its kind, that fear or hope arises.