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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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1) PAY A SHORT WORKING DAY VISIT TO AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS SO THAT WE SEE FACE TO FACE, HAVE A TABLE TALK THAT WOULD CREATE CONFIDENCE IN ME THAT THE FUND WOULD BE SAFE IN YOUR HANDS AND HAVE AN AGREEMENT FROM A ADVOCATE, WHICH WILL BE DULY AND LEGALLY SIGN IN HIS CHAMBERS BEFORE TAKEN ANY STEP IN THIS TRANSACTION. He maintained, for example, that God (who was probably nothing more, in his view, than the world) is neither finite nor infinite, neither in motion nor in rest, neither similar nor dissimilar to any other thing. As we are wont to understand by the term God not merely an eternal nature, the operations of which are insensate and blind, but a Supreme Being, who is the free and intelligent author of all things, and as it is this latter view alone that can be of interest to humanity, we might, in strict rigour, deny to the deist any belief in God at all, and regard him merely as a maintainer of the existence of a primal being or thing--the supreme cause of all other things. Now we must admit that the doctrine of the existence of God belongs to doctrinal belief. For FIRST, it is far from being true, that in every judgment, which we form, we unite two different ideas; since in that proposition, GOD IS, or indeed any other, which regards existence, the idea of existence is no distinct idea, which we unite with that of the object, and which is capable of forming a compound idea by the union. The third idea of pure reason, containing the hypothesis of a being which is valid merely as a relative hypothesis, is that of the one and all-sufficient cause of all cosmological series, in other words, the idea of God.