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But, in order to cognize something in space (for example, a line), I must draw it, and thus produce synthetically a determined conjunction of the given manifold, so that the unity of this act is at the same time the unity of consciousness (in the conception of a line), and by this means alone is an object (a determinate space) cognized. But this empirical character is itself determined by the intelligible character. Mathematical science affords us a brilliant example, how far, independently of all experience, we may carry our a priori knowledge. Precisely the same is the case with every, even the smallest, portion of time. Let us then make the experiment whether we may not be more successful in metaphysics, if we assume that the objects must conform to our cognition. Thus we still find, that whatever causes any fluctuation or mixture of passions, with any degree of uneasiness, always produces fear, or at least a passion so like it, that they are scarcely to be distinguished. I do not mean by this a criticism of books and systems, but a critical inquiry into the faculty of reason, with reference to the cognitions to which it strives to attain without the aid of experience; in other words, the solution of the question regarding the possibility or impossibility of metaphysics, and the determination of the origin, as well as of the extent and limits of this science. To be convinced of this we need only consider the influence of heights and depths on that faculty.
For the absolutely unconditioned cannot be discovered in the sphere of experience.