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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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Nor would this silence be an effect only of their respect, but also of their prudence; since it is certain, that in the vast variety of circumstances, which occur in all governments, an exercise of power, in so great a magistrate, may at one time be beneficial to the public, which at another time would be pernicious and tyrannical.

 But we are speaking here merely of phenomena in space and time, both of which are determinations of sensibility, and not of things in themselves. This sentiment of morality, in the performance of promises, arises from the same principles as that in the abstinence from the property of others. 
What then are time and space?
 If a theory possesses stability in itself, the action and reaction which seemed at first to threaten its existence serve only, in the course of time, to smooth down any superficial roughness or inequality, and--if men of insight, impartiality, and truly popular gifts, turn their attention to it--to secure to it, in a short time, the requisite elegance also. 

The general rule reaches beyond those instances, from which it arose; while at the same time we naturally sympathize with others in the sentiments they entertain of us.

 In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery. 3000+ BOOKS AND REFERENCE ON CD ROM