Substance and Shadow

his optics, to the contemplation of death instead : only unfor- tunately he misnamed that death life; and so, by his great au- thority over men of thought, not of life, stirred up any amount of dreary sepulchral literature. — His pretension to be the Co- pernicus of Philosophy. — His German and Scotch disciples* • 32a CHAPTER XX. The fundamental misconception of the Critical Philosophy. — Kant's dread of Philosophy, lest it plainly avouch creation. — Common sense affirms creation. — Pseudo Philosophy denies it. — Kant's fatal philosophic delinquency, in exteriorating ob- ject to subject. — The extraordinary performances of Fichte, ■ Schelling, and Hegel thereupon. — The testimony of sense one thing ; that of consciousness another. — Kant confounds them. — He thought finite and relative to be one and the same con- c/— ception. — Sense divorces what consciousness marries. — Kant