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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. Let us apply this principle, in order to discover farther the nature of our ideas of space and time. In order to account for this phaenomenon it will be necessary to take some compass, and first explain the nature of sympathy. It is according to their general force in human nature, that we blame or praise. But here we may observe, that though the intercourse of different states be advantageous, and even sometimes necessary, yet it is nor so necessary nor advantageous as that among individuals, without which it is utterly impossible for human nature ever to subsist. Its success is thus great, because it can support all its conceptions by a priori intuitions and, in this way, make itself a master, as it were, over nature; while pure philosophy, with its a priori discursive conceptions, bungles about in the world of nature, and cannot accredit or show any a priori evidence of the reality of these conceptions. When we receive any matter of fact upon human testimony, our faith arises from the very same origin as our inferences from causes to effects, and from effects to causes; nor is there anything but our experience of the governing principles of human nature, which can give us any assurance of the veracity of men. Why then should nature have visited our reason with restless aspirations after it, as if it were one of our weightiest concerns?