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there is announced that energetic, heroic, and severe 

 practical characteristic which was to be introduced by him 

 into German speculation. This opposition to Leibnitz also 

 appears in the fact that, in spite of all his psycho-physical 

 mode of viewing the conflict between sensuous and rational 

 impulses, there is ascribed to the spirit the capability of 

 resisting the sensuous impulse, if it only will. The moral 

 condition of man depends indeed in a high degree on his 

 intellectual development; but if the spirit does not possess 

 dominion over the sensuous nature, it is all the same the 

 fault of its own inertness. It is likewise characteristic of 

 Kant, that with all the charm which physical speculation 

 at that time decidedly had for him, he yet desired to 

 found the moral ideal of the eternal destination of man 

 upon an immediate inner certainty of feeling, which was 

 held to be completely independent of all metaphysical 

 fancies. 



