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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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By this means there arises a kind of contrariety in our method of thinking, from the different points of view, in which we survey the object, and from the nearness or remoteness of those instants of time, which we compare together. But reason cannot cogitate this systematic unity, without at the same time cogitating an object of the idea--an object that cannot be presented in any experience, which contains no concrete example of a complete systematic unity. We advance, rather than retard our existence; and following what seems the natural succession of time, proceed from past to present, and from present to future. The case is the same, as when we correct the different sentiments of virtue, which proceed from its different distances from ourselves. In saying, then, that the sentiments of vice and virtue are natural in this sense, we make no very extraordinary discovery. According to the idea of reason, the whole past time, as the condition of the given moment, is necessarily cogitated as given.