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Are your teeth falling out right now? It may conceive objects with all the circumstances of place and time. For a void time--preceding--is not an object of perception; but if we connect this beginning with objects which existed previously, and which continue to exist till the object in question in question begins to be, then the latter can only be a determination of the former as the permanent. As sympathy has such a powerful influence on the human mind, it causes pride to have, in some measure, the same effect as merit; and by making us enter into those elevated sentiments, which the proud man entertains of himself, presents that comparison, which is so mortifying and disagreeable. There is something very inexplicable in this variation of our feelings; but it is what we have experience of with regard to all our passions and sentiments. 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. That faculty of the soul, which, of all others, is of the least consequence to the character, and has the least virtue or vice in its several degrees, at the same time, that it admits of a great variety of degrees, is the memory. Remark II. Now with this view all empirical use of our faculty of cognition in the determination of time is in perfect accordance.