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Thirdly, experience sufficiently proves, that men, in the ordinary conduct of life, look not so far as the public interest, when they pay their creditors, perform their promises, and abstain from theft, and robbery, and injustice of every kind. And yet all we aim at is the possession of this idea as a secure foundation for the systematic unity of experience--a unity indispensable to reason, advantageous to the understanding, and promotive of the interests of empirical cognition. For I can say only of a thing in itself that it exists without relation to the senses and experience. Most fortunately all this reasoning is found to be exactly conformable to experience, and the phaenomena of the passions. Secondly, The inference he draws from the present impression is built on experience, and on his observation of the conjunction of objects in past instances. The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of the extension of the sphere of pure reason without the aid of experience. Although, then, respecting space, or the forms which productive imagination describes therein, we do cognize much a priori in synthetical judgements, and are really in no need of experience for this purpose, such knowledge would nevertheless amount to nothing but a busy trifling with a mere chimera, were not space to be considered as the condition of the phenomena which constitute the material of external experience.