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Our property is nothing but those goods, whose constant possession is established by the laws of society; that is, by the laws of justice. In a cognition which completely harmonizes with the laws of the understanding, no error can exist. This is a kind of superstitious practice in civil laws, and in the laws of nature, resembling the Roman catholic superstitions in religion. It follows that it is only because we subject the sequence of phenomena, and consequently all change, to the law of causality, that experience itself, that is, empirical cognition of phenomena, becomes possible; and consequently, that phenomena themselves, as objects of experience, are possible only by virtue of this law. It has been a long-cherished wish--that (who knows how late), may one day, be happily accomplished--that the principles of the endless variety of civil laws should be investigated and exposed; for in this way alone can we find the secret of simplifying legislation. To things as things in themselves, conformability to law must necessarily belong independently of an understanding to cognize them. For then honour, and custom, and civil laws supply the place of natural conscience, and produce, in some degree, the same effects.