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It follows that your question--your idea--is by no means necessary for the explanation of any phenomenon; and the idea cannot have been in any sense given by the object itself. Pursuing this track, and hypostatizing this idea, we shall find ourselves authorized to determine our notion of the Supreme Being by means of the mere conception of a highest reality, as one, simple, all-sufficient, eternal, and so on--in one word, to determine it in its unconditioned completeness by the aid of every possible predicate. That is the best deal anywhere today! Hence it follows that consciousness in time is necessarily connected also with the existence of things without me, inasmuch as the existence of these things is the condition of determination in time. The above remarks are of the greatest importance, not only for the confirmation of our previous confutation of idealism, but still more when the subject of self-cognition by mere internal consciousness and the determination of our own nature without the aid of external empirical intuitions is under discussion, for the indication of the grounds of the possibility of such a cognition. Now it has been observed, that impressions or passions are connected only by their resemblance, and that where any two passions place the mind in the same or in similar dispositions, it very naturally passes from the one to the other: As on the contrary, a repugnance in the dispositions produces a difficulty in the transition of the passions. I can proceed to examine my conception in concreto, and to cognize, either a priori or a posterio, what I find in the object of the conception. On the contrary, I believe that it must have remained long--chiefly among the Egyptians--in the stage of blind groping after its true aims and destination, and that it was revolutionized by the happy idea of one man, who struck out and determined for all time the path which this science must follow, and which admits of an indefinite advancement. We employ it in this place in the latter sense--that of a dynamical community, without which even the community of place (communio spatii) could not be empirically cognized.