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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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Shall we then rest contented with these two relations of contiguity and succession, as affording a complete idea of causation? By, no means. Any great elevation of place communicates a kind of pride or sublimity of imagination, and gives a fancyed superiority over those that lie below; and, vice versa, a sublime and strong imagination conveys the idea of ascent and elevation. It is true, men sometimes boast of a great entertainment, at which they have only been present; and by so small a relation convert their pleasure into pride: But however, this must in general be owned, that joy arises from a more inconsiderable relation than vanity, and that many things, which are too foreign to produce pride, are yet able to give us a delight and pleasure, The reason of the difference may be explained thus. In this case there is a feeling distinct and separate from the conception. For no phenomenon goes back from the succeeding point of time to the preceding point, although it does certainly relate to a preceding point of time; from a given time, on the other hand, there is always a necessary progression to the determined succeeding time. There is no other way than through intuitions or conceptions, as such; and these are given either a priori or a posteriorI. The latter, namely, empirical conceptions, together with the empirical intuition on which they are founded, cannot afford any synthetical proposition, except such as is itself also empirical, that is, a proposition of experience. What we cognize in matter is nothing but relations (what we call its internal determinations are but comparatively internal). Were we fully convinced, that our resembling perceptions are continued, and identical, and independent, we should never run into this opinion of a double existence.