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tinguished from the positive Christian creed, has been 

 finally abandoned. 



Had Jacobi been an academic teacher and forced as 

 such to systematise and define his ideas more exactly, 

 these ideas could not have remained in that fragmentary 

 and transitory condition in which they exercised con- 

 siderable influence on other independent and original 

 thinkers while never rising to a leading position in 

 philosophical thought in general. 



This leading position was, at the time, held by Kant, 

 whose line of reasoning became so much more fruitful 

 because it contained not one but several suggestions how 

 a unification of thought and knowledge might be attained. 

 In this respect it supplied notably three definite ideas. 

 All three have been fixed by philosophical terms which 

 Kant introduced, which were taken up by his followers, 

 and which have been permanently incorporated in philo- 

 sophical language. 

 20. The first directing thought is to be found in the first 



Unifying 



principles of Kant's ' Critiques.' It is there termed " the unity of 



in Kant. 



apperception of the intellect." After having adopted 

 that psychological or subjective view of the whole of our 

 theoretical knowledge which maintains that it is made up 

 of ideas, it finds the unity of this aggregate or sequence 

 of ideas in the unity of the apperceiving mind, in which 

 attention, memory, and imagination play the leading 

 part. Yet in opposition to this subjective or psycho- 

 logical unity of thought and knowledge there remains 

 impressed on the mind the apparent unity and order of 

 an external world. This Kant could never explain or 

 explain away. It remained as a limiting conception, as 



