Oyonale - Créations 3D et expériences graphiques
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Cliquer sur les phrases pour les voir dans leur contexte. Les textes de Immanuel Kant et David Hume sont disponibles auprès du Projet Gutenberg.
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It follows from what we have said that we are not justified in declaring the world to be infinite in space, or as regards past time. This peculiarity, however, does not raise them altogether above the need of a proof. Without this they possess no objective validity, but are mere play of imagination or of understanding with images or notions. But it can receive its determined place in time only by the presupposition that something existed in the foregoing state, upon which it follows inevitably and always, that is, in conformity with a rule. But this is an advantage, that concerns only the owner, nor is there any thing but sympathy, which can interest the spectator. Where the royal family is excluded, it is from a refinement in politics, which makes people sensible of their propensity to chuse a sovereign in that family, and gives them a jealousy of their liberty, lest their new monarch, aided by this propensity, should establish his family, and destroy the freedom of elections for the future.