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Thirdly, We may now be able fully to overcome all that repugnance, which it is so natural for us to entertain against the foregoing reasoning, by which we endeavoured to prove, that the necessity of a cause to every beginning of existence is not founded on any arguments either demonstrative or intuitive. For what is contingent exists only under the condition of some other thing, which is its cause; and from this we must go on to conclude the existence of a cause which is not contingent, and which consequently exists necessarily and unconditionally. Thus we are obliged to acknowledge the existence of a chain of causes, in which, however, absolute totality cannot be found. [SECT. 5.] Having thus given an account of all the systems both popular and philosophical, with regard to external existences, I cannot forbear giving vent to a certain sentiment, which arises upon reviewing those systems. The schema of necessity is the existence of an object in all time. They did it for themselves! They are the coherence and constancy of our perceptions, which produce the opinion of their continued existence; though these qualities of perceptions have no perceivable connexion with such an existence. [*Footnote; As to the existence of pure natural science, or physics, perhaps many may still express doubts. The conditioned in existence is termed contingent, and the unconditioned necessary. They as little produce the opinion of a distinct existence, because they neither can offer it to the mind as represented, nor as original.