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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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The second may be ravished from us, but can be of no advantage to him who deprives us of them. It does not belong to my present purpose to shew, that these general principles are applicable to the late revolution; and that all the rights and privileges, which ought to be sacred to a free nation, were at that time threatened with the utmost danger. The new volition has for object a new obligation, and consequently new relations, and consequently a new volition; which volition again has in view a new obligation, relation and volition, without any termination. You will not, for example, be able to explain the phenomena of a body in the least degree better, whether you believe it to consist of simple, or of composite parts; for a simple phenomenon--and just as little an infinite series of composition--can never be presented to your perception. On this point, I need only refer the reader to what I have said at the commencement of the General Remark appended to the foregoing chapter. For the conception is given only in and through the definition, and thus it contains only what has been cogitated in the definition. It is exactly the same case with the third argument[Mr. Locke.], which has been employed to demonstrate the necessity of a cause. Possibility, existence, and necessity nobody has ever yet been able to explain without being guilty of manifest tautology, when the definition has been drawn entirely from the pure understanding.