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The first is the conjunction of a particular state with another preceding it in the world of sense, the former following the latter by virtue of a law. But our proof shows that external experience is properly immediate,* that only by virtue of it--not, indeed, the consciousness of our own existence, but certainly the determination of our existence in time, that is, internal experience--is possible. In short, every one of his faults we either endeavour to extenuate, or dignify it with the name of that virtue, which approaches it. | Whether this virtue of humility has been rightly understood, I shall not pretend to determine. |