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But there are some self-subsistent and permanent, through which a determined object is given. It is plain they arise not from the double relations of impressions and ideas, if we regard only the present sensation. Courage, intrepidity, ambition, love of glory, magnanimity, and all the other shining virtues of that kind, have plainly a strong mixture of self-esteem in them, and derive a great part of their merit from that origin. If, again, we prove the existence of a supreme intelligence, we should be able from it to make the conformity to aims existing in the arrangement of the world comprehensible; but we should not be justified in deducing from it any particular arrangement or disposition, or inferring any where it is not perceived. Not being the gambling type, it took me several weeks to make up my mind to participate in this plan. Our expositions, consequently, teach the reality (i.e., the objective validity) of space in regard of all which can be presented to us externally as object, and at the same time also the ideality of space in regard to objects when they are considered by means of reason as things in themselves, that is, without reference to the constitution of our sensibility. Such is the effect of custom, that it not only reconciles us to any thing we have long enjoyed.