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The custom of imagining a dependence has the same effect as the custom of observing it would have. [*Footnote; Space and time, and all portions thereof, are intuitions; consequently are, with a manifold for their content, single representations. Even after we distinguish our perceptions from our objects, it will appear presently, that we are still incapable of reasoning from the existence of one to that of the other: So that upon the whole our reason neither does, nor is it possible it ever should, upon any supposition, give us an assurance of the continued and distinct existence of body. There is not in my opinion any other natural cause, why security diminishes the passions, than because it removes that uncertainty, which encreases them. That is to say, the consciousness of my own existence is at the same time an immediate consciousness of the existence of other things without me. But the conjunction of representations into a conception is not to be found in objects themselves, nor can it be, as it were, borrowed from them and taken up into the understanding by perception, but it is on the contrary an operation of the understanding itself, which is nothing more than the faculty of conjoining a priori and of bringing the variety of given representations under the unity of apperception. It will only be proper, before we leave this subject, to draw some corrollaries from it, by which we may remove several prejudices and popular errors, that have very much prevailed in philosophy.