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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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To view ourselves, therefore, as in the kingdom of grace, in which all happiness awaits us, except in so far as we ourselves limit our participation in it by actions which render us unworthy of happiness, is a practically necessary idea of reason. Pity and love are to be considered in the same light. Here then is the origin of civil government and society. Hence this determination of my existence, and consequently my internal experience itself, must depend on something permanent which is not in me, which can be, therefore, only in something external to me, to which I must look upon myself as being related. There are other particulars of this system, wherein we may remark its dependence on the fancy, in a very conspicuous manner. broke; and consequently we are presented with the idea of diversity: In order to reconcile which contradictions the imagination is apt to feign something unknown and invisible, which it supposes to continue the same under all these variations; and this unintelligible something it calls a substance, or original and first matter. Hence in some governments of this kind, the choice commonly falls on one or other of the royal family; and in some governments they are all excluded. They extend not beyond a mistake of fact, which moralists have not generally supposed criminal, as being perfectly involuntary.