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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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For, in this case, it is quite foreign and unessential to the nature of things, and cannot be cognized from the general laws of nature. First, If nature had given us a pleasure of this kind, it would have been as evident and discernible as on every other occasion; nor should we have found any difficulty to perceive, that the consideration of such actions, in such a situation, gives a certain pleasure and sentiment of approbation. In this respect, as well as others, the force of the passion depends as much on the temper of the person, as the nature or situation of the object. we immediately conclude it to be an evil, and without waiting till we can examine its nature, whether it be good or bad, are at first affected with fear. It is opposed to the cognition of nature, which concerns only those objects or predicates which can be presented in a possible experience. It is a quality very observable in human nature, that any opposition, which does not entirely discourage and intimidate us, has rather a contrary effect, and inspires us with a more than ordinary grandeur and magnanimity. and how is it possible to cognize the nature of things according to a priori principles, and to attain to a rational physiology?