upon Kate, this would have bee nation. But her whole life con There can be no doubt, therefor last year of our James I.), she b her own country that was almos was not of a kind that rested up countrymen. So long as it wa amongst them, it was an admi pular, shared alike by the rich a humble. Great, therefore, woul There is a tradition that Velas portrait of Charles I. (then Pri who in the three or four followin It is believed also, that in trave Rome, she sat to various artists, herself already rising amongst th the Romish Church. It is proba tures of Kate are yet lurking both as such. For, as the public cons out of merits and qualities purel no local or family memorials roote it was inevitable that, as soon as of her portraits would perish: a wards be confounded with the sim which every year accumulates as t brances of generations that are pa faded, that are dying or buried. many irrecoverable ruins, that, in still possess one undoubted repre degree a means for identifying oth memorably adorned by nature; gif both of doing and suffering; whol by a fate so unsearchably mysteric nough to fix the gaze of her own tuted Kate's supreme distinction. hat, from the year 1624 (i. e., the ame the object of an admiration in idolatrous. And this admiration hany partisan-schism amongst her kept alive by her bodily presence ation equally aristocratic and pond the poor-by the lofty and the d be the demand for her portrait. quez, who had in 1623 executed a nce of Wales), was amongst those ng years ministered to this demand. elling from Genoa and Florence to in order to meet the interest about he cardinals and other dignitaries of pable, therefore, that numerous picch in Spain and Italy, but not known sideration granted to her had grown -ly personal, and were kept alive by ted in the land, or surviving herself, s she herself died, all identification and the portraits would thenceformilar memorials, past all numbering, the wrecks from household remempassing or passed, that are fading or . It is well, therefore, amongst so n the portrait at Aix-la-Chapelle, we resentation (and therefore in some ther representations) of a female so gifted with capacities so unparalleled o lived a life so stormy, and perished rious THE LAS I TAKE it for g acknowledge som manuel Kant, ho nities may have b of Kant's philoso an unpopular pat curiosity. To su Kant, is to suppo therefore, though i Kant with interest of courtesy to pre make no apology t or Vandal, Hun or sketch of Kant's lif authentic records that, without any ill works of Kant are same interest which may be attributed t in which those work "The language," &c.: --significant cf that grea in the eighteenth century posed obscurity of the phil ther inalienable, or due to pounding it; thirdly, to th philosophy whatsoever, no try where the structure a upon the whole activities that Leibnitz, the forerunner of losophy for the fifty years betwee the fifty years between 1750 and at any time not in French, then exclusively in German. And w princes in Germany, that found crowns, drew their little Aulic m micry from France, that the very heated atmosphere of Versailles, at second-hand for German use. Arminius had found good enough, had made resonant as a trumpet fine enough for the Serenissimi (Friederich der Einziger), which name, for the man whom in Engla the hero of the Seven Years' War taire, in this respect was even mo if he did not alter, Germany did. German language, which the vile to the eyes of those that occupied selves to the popular mind of Ger thence it happened that Kant's w man; or, if in any case not in G upon an academic necessity. Thi language proved the misfortune of his philosophy was accessible only plishment exceedingly rare down to ter not rare (as amongst the travel that exported to Germany, and am to be disposable for purposes of liter has been translated into Latin-vi seen; and, as respects Kant's card Danish professor; and it is possib has also been translated into Eng communicated to myself were at al not in such Englis y which they deliver, whet's particular mode of expopularity of all speculative ter how treated, in a countendency of society impress he nation a direction almost nt, holding the same station in phi- of Kant's philosophy. For many years mongst the clerks of bankers), not likely glish as could have much chance of win exclusivel immediate curiosity w of a profou -viz, by against him ning a favourab be beyond all p by any artist. cular version, ho tial results have degree judicious the treatment of essentially obscur That is not its des sealed language, a philosophy of all t who in any nation ated; at any rate, sive, or gratuitously these few would gra able amongst the ma would have arisen th with its proper field have re-entered upon would have wielded w ethics, braced up into ings with Eudæmonis sublime ideals of Chris Exclusively pract might be regarded as n ing an apology. But, period this were true in The speculative philosop itself in theology. In than three centuries, the section in the national lit churches in the world-n logies-first, the Papal; Anglican. But is there no man theology, and has b respect to this, which style he has modified-there is ever, if we except Aristotle, pretend to approach Kant of influence which he has ex Such being his claims upor no more than a reasonable self-interest) a Protestant theology presents no unity of any kind, goo tary thing; without internal coh starting from no avowed creed, an of interpretation. But is it not Pretestant theology? As to the answer by distinguishing-if philo task of building up a systematic d preme degree learned. But I den and a-half centuries, accumulated lican Church, by various branches Papal, can be resolved into mere p language having become in our great advantages for accurate rese a favourable light. But, in the m far-stretching meditative collation with the colossal contributions of o As to the second question, the ans not Protestant? No; sans phrase, fancied such, unless under the fo principle of Protestantism is suppo ment: without scruple, therefore, it cise the right of private judgment. who reverses the rule-saying, all judgment, are Protestants. Under theology is Protestant, for assuredly or audacity. But, in the meantime, nation has exhaled into smoke. Tha by fits all possible relations to all c say, that the German theology is alt direction, according to the impulse w to a random caprice in the individua fashion of thought in the age. It theologies as there are of individua extremity of feud and schism, there |