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For if we regard space and time as properties, which must be found in objects as things in themselves, as sine quibus non of the possibility of their existence, and reflect on the absurdities in which we then find ourselves involved, inasmuch as we are compelled to admit the existence of two infinite things, which are nevertheless not substances, nor anything really inhering in substances, nay, to admit that they are the necessary conditions of the existence of all things, and moreover, that they must continue to exist, although all existing things were annihilated-- we cannot blame the good Berkeley for degrading bodies to mere illusory appearances. In order to construct the table of ideas in correspondence with the table of categories, we take first the two primitive quanta of all our intuitions, time and space. Its relation to objects in space gives us the conception of connection (commercium) with bodies. All this is easily applied to the present question, why a considerable distance in time produces a greater veneration for the distant objects than a like removal in space. All substances, in so far as they can be perceived in space at the same time, exist in a state of complete reciprocity of action. Time and space are, therefore, two sources of knowledge, from which, a priori, various synthetical cognitions can be drawn. When we reflect, therefore, on any object distant from ourselves, we are obliged not only to reach it at first by passing through all the intermediate space betwixt ourselves and the object, but also to renew our progress every moment; being every moment recalled to the consideration of ourselves and our present situation.