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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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It will take thousands of tests and many years before the effects of electromagnetic radiation on the human body is known.

 The physician must pursue some course in the case of a patient who is in danger, but is ignorant of the nature of the disease. Both parties beat the air and fight with their own shadows, as they pass beyond the limits of nature, and can find no tangible point of attack--no firm footing for their dogmatical conflict. 

If we consider all the hypotheses, which have been formed either by philosophy or common reason, to explain the difference betwixt beauty and deformity, we shall find that all of them resolve into this, that beauty is such an order and construction of parts, as either by the primary constitution of our nature, by custom, or by caprice, is fitted to give a pleasure and satisfaction to the soul.

 Human nature is too inconstant to admit of any such regularity. For nature is properly the only object presented to us, in regard to which reason requires regulative principles. No object, in the vast variety of nature, will, in any disposition, produce any passion without these relations. The question, therefore, concerning the wickedness or goodness of human nature, enters not in the least into that other question concerning the origin of society; nor is there any thing to be considered but the degrees of men's sagacity or folly. And this is the nature and use of geometry, to run us up to such appearances, as, by reason of their simplicity, cannot lead us into any considerable error.