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The passage is smooth and open from the consideration of any person related to us to that of ourself, of whom we are every moment conscious. This is the logical criterion of possibility, distinguishing the object of such a conception from the nihil negativum. This connection can be hoped for only on the assumption that the cause of nature is a supreme reason, which governs according to moral laws. It is evident, that the idea, or rather impression of ourselves is always intimately present with us, and that our consciousness gives us so lively a conception of our own person, that it is not possible to imagine, that any thing can in this particular go beyond it. - In the representation "I," the consciousness of myself is not an intuition, but a merely intellectual representation produced by the spontaneous activity of a thinking subject.
But in this, in truth, is to be found its real motive. Frequent and rare depend upon the number of examples we have observed; and as this number may gradually encrease or diminish, it will be impossible to fix any exact boundaries betwixt them. Such objects are consequently nothing more than the transference of this consciousness of mine to other things which can only thus be represented as thinking beings.