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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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Thus we are obliged to acknowledge the existence of a chain of causes, in which, however, absolute totality cannot be found.

 This is another principle. And this was the first thing to be proved. 

[*Footnote; The human mind (as, I believe, every rational being must of necessity do) takes a natural interest in morality, although this interest is not undivided, and may not be practically in preponderance.

 On this account, this category of substance stands under the title of relation, rather because it is the condition thereof than because it contains in itself any relation. - Move the name & address in REPORT # 4 down TO REPORT # 5. We may give to this influence what name we please; but as it is usually conjoined with the action, common sense requires it should be esteemed a cause, and be booked upon as an instance of that necessity, which I would establish. Such a ruler, together with life in such a world, which we must look upon as future, reason finds itself compelled to assume; or it must regard the moral laws as idle dreams, since the necessary consequence which this same reason connects with them must, without this hypothesis, fall to the ground. For exampkle, I may compute the light of the sun, and say that its quantity is a certain number of times greater than that of the moon.