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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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Without any other alteration, beside that of the feeling, they become immediately ideas of the memory, and are assented to. The word raises up an individual idea, along with a certain custom; and that custom produces any other individual one, for which we may have occasion. It is evident I can never account for this phenomenon, conformable to my experience in other instances, without spreading out in my mind the whole sea and continent between us, and supposing the effects and continued existence of posts and ferries, according to my Memory and observation. This easy progression of ideas favours the imagination, and makes it conceive its object in a stronger and fuller light, than when we are continually opposed in our passage, and are obliged to overcome the difficulties arising from the natural propensity of the fancy. Thus the transcendental ideas are available only for ascending in the series of conditions, till we reach the unconditioned, that is, principles. The principle that everything which happens (the empirically contingent) must have a cause, is a principle of the cognition of nature, but not of speculative cognition. To explain the ultimate causes of our mental actions is impossible. In relation to this criterion, therefore, we must suppose the idea of the systematic unity of nature to possess objective validity and necessity.