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the sciences than a metempirical misconception like the 

 Absolute. Nor need we blush to own that a view like 

 ours would not prove the popular Vorstellung of persons 

 wholly false (even though it would tend to regard things 

 as being only persons of a lower development of 

 individuality), and so might prove more attractive to the 

 plain man. For it is possible to be critical, without 

 disregarding either humanity or reality. 



