240 The Divine Mind in relation CHAP. 



and cannot be said either to subsist by itself, or to 

 inhere in things that do so subsist." " Time is there- 

 fore nothing but the form of our inner perception." 1 



The following comment of Kant's on these his own 

 views must be quoted : 



"The natural theologian is very careful to say 

 that God, in His perception, is free from the limits 

 of Space and Time. But how can this possibly be 

 maintained, if it has previously been assumed that 

 Space and Time are forms of things in themselves 1 

 ... If they are conditions of all existence, they 

 must be conditions of the existence even of God. 

 We can avoid this conclusion only by saying that 

 Space and Time are not objective forms of all things, 

 but subjective forms of our outer as well as of our 

 inner perceptions " 2 (i.e. Space of the outer and Time 

 of the inner perceptions). 



I have stated in the foregoing chapter that I 

 believe the Divine Mind to be independent of the 

 conditions of Space and Time. But this, in my view, 

 is not because such relations are unreal to God, but 

 because His Mind transcends and includes them ; 

 unlike our minds, which are included in them. 

 We do not and cannot know the relation of Space 

 and Time to the Divine Mind ; it may be that they 

 have been created, like the world of matter and 

 mind. But although God transcends the created 



1 Watson, pp. 34, 35. Kant's Kritik, 1st ed. pp. 36, 37 ; 

 2nd ed. pp. 52, 54. 



2 Watson, p. 37. Kant's Kritik, 2nd ed. p. 71. 



