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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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When a person is possessed of any power, there is no more required to convert it into action, but the exertion of the will; and that in every case is considered as possible, and in many as probable; especially in the case of authority, where the obedience of the subject is a pleasure and advantage to the superior.

 The speculative part of metaphysic, which has especially appropriated this appellation--that which we have called the metaphysic of nature--and which considers everything, as it is (not as it ought to be), by means of a priori conceptions, is divided in the following manner. I shall merely premise an explanation of what the categories are. But not content with removing this objection, I shall endeavour to extract from it a proof of the present doctrine. This is the more remarkable, that in the two last species of animals, the pride always attends the beauty, and is discovered in the male only.