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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.
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For then honour, and custom, and civil laws supply the place of natural conscience, and produce, in some degree, the same effects. We may certainly collect from phenomena a law, according to which this or that usually happens, but the element of necessity is not to be found in it. When men have found by experience, that it is impossible to subsist without society, and that it is impossible to maintain society, while they give free course to their appetites; so urgent an interest quickly restrains their actions, and imposes an obligation to observe those rules, which we call the laws of justice. Principle of Coexistence, According to the Law of Reciprocity or Community.