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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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But, it will be asked again, can we on these grounds, admit the existence of a wise and omnipotent author of the world?

 The answer is; It is the existence of the world which renders this hypothesis necessary. When an object is found by-experience to be always accompanyed with another; whenever the first object appears, though changed in very material circumstances; we naturally fly to the conception of the second, and form an idea of it in as lively and strong a manner, as if we had infered its existence by the justest and most authentic conclusion of our understanding. Some pretend that it is not absolutely necessary a cause should precede its effect; but that any object or action, in the very first moment of its existence, may exert its productive quality, and give rise to another object or action, perfectly co-temporary with itself. They as little produce the opinion of a distinct existence, because they neither can offer it to the mind as represented, nor as original. No one can once doubt but existence and non-existence destroy each other, and are perfectly incompatible and contrary. The existence of practical freedom can be proved from experience alone. A passion is an original existence, or, if you will, modification of existence, and contains not any representative quality, which renders it a copy of any other existence or modification.