o philosophic writer whatso- it is quite sufficient to say, that it e, no. by our Anglican Church, by the Gal es of the Romish Church more strictly philology. All studies connected with day more critically exact, and with search, so far the German is seen under meantime, its labours of thought and n are as children's play, by comparison our own heroic workmen in that field. nswer is short and peremptory. Is it Neither could it ever have been following fallacy. The characteristic posed to be the right of private judgit is usual to say, all Protestants exernt. Upon which comes some German, ■ll men, exercising the right of private er that courteous indulgence, German ly there is no want of private judgment e, the value or efficacy of such a desighat cannot be Protestant which assumes 1 conceivable subjects. It is enough to altogether at sea, drifting in any chance e which it receives: sometimes obedient lual writer, sometimes to a momentary It presents almost as many incoherent ual authors. And finally, under any re is no recognised court (I speak figu ribunal) for arbitration or appeal. to presume i justify this b Immanuel at Königsberg about fifty t 1724. His p rich even for t ance from a 1 from a gentlen domestic virtu education. He and in the yea derician) Acade classics, and fo fellows, David scholars under lasted until the his mother, a w tual accomplish to the future em tion which she i by the elevated never spoke of he tenderness, or wi gations to her ma In 1740, at M Königsberg. In he wrote his first *By the paternal si and hence it is that t that being a Scotch na manuel substituted a A gies of the German lan tical and partly philosophi forces. The question conce Leibnitz, in opposition to valuation, and not merely on by Leibnitz; and the d been here at last and finally most of the great European half-a-century. Kant's "D the King of Prussia, but no fact (though printed, I beli From this time till 1770, private tutor in different fa lectures in Königsberg, espe art of fortification. Chair of Mathematics, which that of Logic and Metaphysic vered an inaugural disputati Intelligibilis Formâ et Princip containing the first germs† sophy. In 1781, he publishe tik der Reinen Vernunft," or Pure Reason." On February These are the great epochs a life remarkable, not so much purity and philosophic dignity In 177 To this circumstance we must a amongst the philosophers and mathe also the fact that D'Alembert, whose mathematics, many years afterwards pute as a verbal one. "The first germs: "-Such, I belie reality much more than germs. To rather to resemble an abstract of th from a dim recollection of it, than a f effort of imperfect preconception z., the valuation of living had been first moved by Cartesians; a new law of w valuation, was insisted ate was supposed to have tled, after having occupied thematicians for more than ertation" was dedicated to er reached him; having, in ve), never been published.* ant supported himself as a milies, or by giving private ially to military men on the 0, he was appointed to the he exchanged soon after for _CS. On this occasion he deliion (De Mundi Sensibilis atque pis), which is remarkable for - of the Transcendental Philoed his great work, the "Kri"Critical Investigation of the y 12, 1804, he died. s of Kant's life. But his was ch for its incidents, as for the ity of its daily tenour; and of attribute its being so little known hematicians of foreign countries, and se philosophy was miserably below his Es still continued to represent the dis elieve, is the prevailing phrase, but in To me this memorable essay seems the "Kritik der Reinen Vernunft," a foreshadowing cf its outline by any this the b memorial monies of him here s and with th complaints head; over ture mount, principal de that they rep And perhaps some of the as to be at on With respect that biograph scrutiny into a of honour woul out blame; and times with adva hardly know ho the bedside of hi accuracy of a sho pulse, and the st except by suppos as of one belong transcend and swa sensibility; and th to his sense of a p would willingly ha affections. Now le part it is Wasianski "It is Wasianski u not be too rigorously inte Afte My knowledge of Profess period to which this little n In the year 1773 or 1774, attended his lectures. ensis; and in that office closer connection with him so that, without any reques a general privilege of free 1780 I took orders, and wit tion with the university. I reside in Königsberg; but w wholly unnoticed, by Kant. in 1790), I met him by accid fact it was a wedding party, a Königsberg professor. A conversation and attentions the entertainment, when the separate groups, he came and my side. At that time I w mean, from the passion I had which he talked of my favo extensive information. In th I was surprised to find that of evil example, to distribute and co of men. When the opinions involve means let every man hang by his own he has solemnly undertaken for. Bu most annoying to the reader, if all th fourteen men reporting upon Kant we with its separate certificate of origin a may be regarded as the running ti understood that Wasianski is alway opinion or fact reported, unless where In that case the responsibility is conti Kant began long before the orial of him chiefly refers. cannot exactly say which, I wards I acted as his amanus naturally brought into a han any other of the students; on my part, he granted me access to his class-room. In drew myself from all connecstill continued, however, to holly forgotten, or at any rate Ten years later (that is to say, lent at a gay festal party; in and the wedding was that of t table, Kant distributed his = pretty generally; but after ⇒ company had dispersed into d seated himself obligingly by was a florist—an amateur, ad for flowers; upon learning ourite pursuit, and with very the course of our conversation, he was perfectly acquainted I confound the separate responsibilities e important moral distinctions, by all vn hook, and answer for no more than But, on the other hand, it would be the petty recollections of some ten or were individually to be labelled each and ownership. Wasianski loquitur title: but it is not, therefore, to be ways responsible for each particular ere it is liable to doubt or controversy. utiously discriminate/l and restricted. with all the me of our at finding t that, if my then come a take his leav he proposed I did so; ar week, with a permission to cult to accou treated me; a might have sp advantageousl but more intin was in the hab welfare of his i hear of their pr in thinking he This revival c nearly, in point domestic arrang his custom to dir keep house himse dine with him, so three for the lowe upon any little f fact, a punctual ob *This was no rule c by the classical ages of this, and looking out fo of so graceful a formul fixing upon Lord Cheste better than many that a |