Substance and Shadow

Clearly then Kant was as treacherous to sdi- ence as he was to Philosophy, as disloyal to reason as he was to Revelation, in making the objective sphere of human life fall outside of man's subjectivity or below it, rather than with- in or above it He systematically identified the realm of the not-me with nature instead of God: or if he allowed it any pertinency to the latter designation, it could only be by divesting God meanwhile of every spiritual attribute, and pos- tulating Him as a purely natural existence sep- arated from man by the totality of space and time, or the integrality of nature. It is as in- structive as it is melancholy to observe how the whole current of subsequent philosophic, or rather logical, speculation in Germany reflected the unhappy scientific bias Kant had thus im- pressed upon it, by hastening to precipitate itself into the fatal embraces of Pantheism. For of course if, not negligently but on principle, you exteriorate object to subject, being to seem- ing, substance to form, you necessarily exalt the minor element of thought to the unchallenged primacy of its major element, and consequently end by identifying man with- Deity. Fichte accordingly in accepting without examination the ICantian analysis of knowledge, found him-