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This is the only part of Hume's doctrine which was contested by his great adversary, Kant; who, maintaining as strenuously as Comte that we know nothing of Things in themselves, of Noumena, of real Substances and real Causes, yet peremptorily asserted their existence. But neither does Comte question this: on the contrary, all his language implies it.
The leading idea of her book on literature was the perfectibility of human nature, not new, since it had been affirmed by Ferguson in England, by Kant in Germany, and by Turgot in France, and even by Roger Bacon in the Middle Ages. But she claimed to be the first to apply perfectibility to literature.
Supposing ...? Then fiercely, flinging the thought from him he trampled it down. He went to the telephone and called up a doctor who lived in Cheyne Walk. The man could be with him in a quarter of an hour. Then he went back into the nursery. Mrs. Kant was there. "I've sent for Dr. Mitchell." "Very well, sir." "He'll be here in quarter of an hour." "Very well, sir." He hated the woman.
Kant and Hegel were both great forces in human thought, yet throughout eighty years Kant was tethered to the little town of Konigsberg, and Hegel did not know what the French were doing in Jena the day after there had been fought just outside a battle which smote Prussia to her knees. The deeds of such men are their thoughts, their books, and these do not make a story.
When he went to India he took with him some of the scholastic writers and the works of Kant and Fichte, then known to few Englishmen. One of Macaulay's experiences at Holland House was a vision of Mackintosh verifying a quotation from Aquinas. It must have been delightful.
Kant continued to be the favorite guide of Maimon's countrymen, and in their love for him they interpreted the initials of his name to mean "For my soul panteth after thee." But more efficacious than all other agencies was Mendelssohn's German translation of the Bible, and the Biur commentary published therewith.
All these elements led, toward the end of the period, to the effort at the construction of a really rational theology. Leibnitz and Lessing both worked at that problem. However, not until after the labours of Kant was it possible to utilise the results of the rationalist movement for the reconstruction of theology.
Hence they were escorted by the whole body of the University, splendidly dressed for the occasion, and by many military officers of rank, with whom Kant had always been a great favorite, to the house of the deceased Professor; from which the corpse was carried by torch- light, the bells of every church in Koenigsberg tolling, to the Cathedral which was lit up by innumerable wax-lights.
Contingent historical truths can never serve as a proof of the necessary truths of reason. Christianity is older than the New Testament. Already, in the case of Lessing, we may doubt, in view of his historical temper and of certain speculative tendencies, whether he is to be included among the Illuminati. In the case of Kant a decided protest must be raised against such a classification.
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.’ In a beautiful poem, Stephen Phillips describes how a bereaved lover can think calmly of his dead, when he looked at her possessions, the things she had worn, even when he read her letters; and her saddest words had no power to pain him, but when he came
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