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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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The small success, which has been met with in all the attempts to fix this power, has at last obliged philosophers to conclude, that the ultimate force and efficacy of nature is perfectly unknown to us, and that it is in vain we search for it in all the known qualities of matter. The nature of human society admits not of any great accuracy; nor can we always remount to the first origin of things, in order to determine their present condition. Without the control of criticism, reason is, as it were, in a state of nature, and can only establish its claims and assertions by war. The so-called proof of the simple nature of the soul from the unity of apperception, is a very plausible one. It is very remarkable, although naturally it could not have been otherwise, that, in the infancy of philosophy, the study of the nature of God and the constitution of a future world formed the commencement, rather than the conclusion, as we should have it, of the speculative efforts of the human mind.