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These principles being established on unquestionable experience, I begin to consider how we shall apply them, by revolving over all the causes of pride and humility, whether these causes be regarded, as the qualities, that operate, or as the subjects, on which the qualities are placed. In respect of time, therefore, no knowledge of ours is antecedent to experience, but begins with it. Still less is an object of experience, or an image of the object, ever to the empirical conception. The absolute whole of quantity (the universe), of division, of derivation, of the condition of existence, with the question--whether it is to be produced by finite or infinite synthesis, no possible experience can instruct us concerning. Now the safe ground of experience being thus abandoned, it seems nevertheless natural that we should hesitate to erect a building with the cognitions we possess, without knowing whence they come, and on the strength of principles, the origin of which is undiscovered. To prove the ideas of passion and desire not to be innate, they observe that we have a preceding experience of these emotions in ourselves.