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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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These suppositions are all consistent and natural; and the reason, Why we imagine the communication of motion to be more consistent and natural not only than those suppositions, but also than any other natural effect, is founded on the relation of resemblance betwixt the cause and effect, which is here united to experience, and binds the objects in the closest and most intimate manner to each other, so as to make us imagine them to be absolutely inseparable. Reason believes that it has discovered these requisites in the conception of an ens realissimum--and in it alone, and hence concludes; The ens realissimum is an absolutely necessary being. Men are superior to beasts principally by the superiority of their reason; and they are the degrees of the same faculty, which set such an infinite difference betwixt one man and another. Let us, therefore, apply this method of enquiry, which is found so just and useful in reasonings concerning the body, to our present anatomy of the mind, and see what discoveries we can make by it.
This is a requirement of reason, which announces its cognition as determined a priori and as necessary, either in itself--and in this case it needs no grounds to rest upon--or, if it is deduced, as a member of a series of grounds, which is itself unconditionally true.