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The manifold nature of things is only an infinitely various mode of limiting the conception of the highest reality, which is their common substratum; just as all figures are possible only as different modes of limiting infinite space. Other forms of intuition besides those of space and time, other forms of understanding besides the discursive forms of thought, or of cognition by means of conceptions, we can neither imagine nor make intelligible to ourselves; and even if we could, they would still not belong to experience, which is the only mode of cognition by which objects are presented to us. SECT. III. OF THE OTHER QUALITIES OF OUR IDEA OF SPACE AND TIME. For as conditions of all existence in general, space and time must be conditions of the existence of the Supreme Being also. There is an easy reason, why every thing contiguous to us, either in space or time, should be conceived with a peculiar force and vivacity, and excel every other object, in its influence on the imagination. What then are time and space? Let us apply this principle, in order to discover farther the nature of our ideas of space and time. The question is as much above the power and the sphere of reason as the following would be; "Why does the transcendental object of our external sensuous intuition allow of no other form than that of intuition in space?" But the problem, which we were called upon to solve, does not require us to entertain any such questions. 3000+ BOOKS AND REFERENCE ON CD ROM