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In these circumstances we shall render an important service to reason if we succeed in simply indicating the path along which it must travel, in order to arrive at any results--even if it should be found necessary to abandon many of those aims which, without reflection, have been proposed for its attainment. They are conceptions of pure reason, for they regard all empirical cognition as determined by means of an absolute totality of conditions. We cannot penetrate into the reason of the conjunction. Nay suppose we coued draw an inference, it would be of no consequence in the present case; since no kind of reasoning can give rise to a new idea, such as this of power is; but wherever we reason, we must antecedently be possest of clear ideas, which may be the objects of our reasoning. But it is evident, in the first place, that the repetition of like objects in like relations of succession and contiguity discovers nothing new in any one of them: since we can draw no inference from it, nor make it a subject either of our demonstrative or probable reasonings;[SECT. 6.] as has been already proved.