y of a diplomatic person who nce, than as a simple spectawere in those days unfolding time of the French Revoluctures, and what then passed especially in regard to milias punctually fulfilled as his n regard to the hiatus in the Cars and Jupiter,* the entire d to witness on the discovery las by Dr Olbers. These two ssed him much; and they furalways talked with pleasure; al modesty, he never said a having upon à priori grounds discoveries many years before. in June, 1804, about the time when - presuming some hiatus in our own cansition from one order of orbits to which might be regarded as by tenr, which departs from this tendency e passing of the first into the last ted: it was discontinuous. He preoutermost known planet, which at tary system, some great planet must transition-as being more eccentric arest of the comets. Not very long e father) the great planet Uranus, in a spirit of gratitude to his patron) was so far a justification of Kant's ogether an à priori speculation, like tune—that is, it did not by one iota upon necessities à priori. It was not Kant shone, bu who had no g happy and jovia the mixed pleas his Platonic ba the sustaining of what of an artist Two rules there may say invariab be miscellaneous variety to the c presented as muc forded, being dr office, professors, merchants. His of young men, freq the students of the ment of gaiety and tion; an additiona believe, was, that i the sadness which s deaths of some you And this leads Kant's way of expr sickness. So long fied a restless anxi with impatience for pursue his customa But no sooner was t recovered his comp tranquillity-almost he viewed life in ge affection of life which we call tion and perpetual change, b ating sympathies of hope an proportion that justified th death-as a permanent state no less, that terminated all guished the agitations of su adapted to any state of fe enduring and unchanging c philosophic heroism gave wa persons will remember the manifested upon the death of of very fine understanding an whom he had the greatest happened, in so long a life as rule for selecting his social con amongst the young, that he heavy loss that could never be To return, however, to th diately after the termination walked out for exercise; but took any companion; partly, it right, after so much convivi to pursue his meditations, a * * Mr Wasianski is wrong. To purs cumstances might, perhaps, be an i yielded, but not one which he would j disapproved of eating alone, or solips the principle, that a man would be ap and pleasure of a social party, to thinl cise which he considered very injuriou process of digestion. On the same pr or riding alone; the double exercise of carried on simultaneously. being calcul kness, as a state of oscilla- be supplied to him. he course of his day, imme- ursue his meditations under these cirinclination of Kant's to which he I justify or erect into a maxim. He psismus convictorii, as he calls it, on apt, if not called off by the business ink too much or too closely, an exerTous to the stomach during the first principle he disapproved of walking e of thinking and of bodily agitation, culated, as he conceived, to press to know) for this not do, if he w to irritate them tice, which he d flattered himself nesses, catarrhs, and the fact rea attacked him ver sionally adopting liable as formerly On returning table, and read ti light, so friendly tion on what he h worth it; if not, 1 or some part of a During this state summer by the st old tower of Löber to see it, but the to on the ear-obscur ness. No words se of the gratification when seen under th reverie. The seque become to his com neighbouring garder the tower, upon whi less, and at length found pursue his evening meditat prietor of the garden was a person, who had, besides, a accordingly, upon a represen to him, he gave orders that t This was done; the old towe posed; Kant recovered his found himself able to pursu peace. After the candles were b studies till nearly ten o'clock. retiring for the night, he wit possible from every class of th exertion or energy of attenti stimulating and exciting hir would be apt to cause wakef terference with his customary the highest degree unpleasant with him a very rare occurre without his servant's assistan with such a Roman regard to that he was always ready at a his appearance without emba others. This done, he lay wrapped himself up in a quilt, of cotton; in autumn, of wool; he used both; and, against ver himself by one of eider-down covered his shoulders was not padded, or rather wadded clo Long practice had taught him nesting and enswathing himself himself positively unable to rought, Kant prosecuted his A quarter-of-an-hour before thdrew his mind as much as houghts which demanded any ion, on the principle, that by m too much, such thoughts efulness; and the slightest iny hour of falling asleep was in ht to him. Happily, this was ence. He undressed himself ce; but in such an order, and o decorum and the rò géo, a moment's warning to make arrassment to himself or to a mattress, and down on which in summer was always 1; at the setting-in of winter, ery severe cold, he protected n, of which the part which pt stuffed with feathers, but losely with layers of wool. a very dexterous mode of f in the bedclothes. First of all, he sat dow he vaulted obl of the bedclot below his back right shoulder operated on t ally contrived swathed like a volved like th approach of sl For Kant's heal or the absence (either of which but a state of scious possessio when packed up he would often at dinner)"Is more perfect he purity of his li situation, that n nor care to hara severest winter, in his latter yea his friends as to self-indulgence f minutes, in the o first chill of the over his person. room in the nig and night, summ rope, which was and carried into |