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The uniting principle among our internal perceptions is as unintelligible as that among external objects, and is not known to us any other way than by experience. But the term, conception of reason, or rational conception, itself indicates that it does not confine itself within the limits of experience, because its object-matter is a cognition, of which every empirical cognition is but a part--nay, the whole of possible experience may be itself but a part of it--a cognition to which no actual experience ever fully attains, although it does always pertain to it. As we have taken upon us the task of determining, clearly and certainly, the limits of pure reason in the sphere of transcendentalism, and as the efforts of reason in this direction are persisted in, even after the plainest and most expressive warnings, hope still beckoning us past the limits of experience into the splendours of the intellectual world--it becomes necessary to cut away the last anchor of this fallacious and fantastic hope. The objects of experience then are not things in themselves, but are given only in experience, and have no existence apart from and independently of experience. This series in past time is represented as real, not in itself, but only in connection with a possible experience. Though there be nothing visible or tangible interposed betwixt two bodies, yet we find BY EXPERIENCE, that the bodies may be placed in the same manner, with regard to the eye, and require the same motion of the hand in passing from one to the other, as if divided by something visible and tangible. We have, on the contrary, merely employed the three categories of quantity, setting aside their application to objects of experience, as general logical laws of the consistency of cognition with itself. There is something very inexplicable in this variation of our feelings; but it is what we have experience of with regard to all our passions and sentiments. Consequently, in cognition, their application to objects of experience is the only legitimate use of the categories.