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ledge and its form are lowered, as also between the " pure 

 forms" of sensibility and the categories of the understand- 

 ing. The matter and form of intellectual knowledge 

 (restricted to its own object) are seen to be engendering 

 each other by a reciprocal adaptation, intellect modeling 

 itself on corporeity, and corporeity on intellect. 



But this duality of intuition Kant neither would nor 

 could admit. It would have been necessary, in order to ad- 

 mit it, to regard duration as the very stuff of reality, and 

 consequently to distinguish between the substantial du- 

 ration of things and time spread out in space. It would 

 have been necessary to regard space itself, and the geometry 

 which is immanent in space, as an ideal limit in the direction 

 of which material things develop, but which they do not 

 actually attain. Nothing could be more contrary to the 

 letter, and perhaps also to the spirit, of the Critique of 

 Pure Reason. No doubt, knowledge is presented to us in 

 it as an ever-open roll, experience as a push of facts that 

 is for ever going on. But, according to Kant, these facts 

 are spread out on one plane as fast as they arise; they are 

 external to each other and external to the mind. Of a 

 knowledge from within, that could grasp them in their 

 springing forth instead of taking them already sprung, 

 that would dig beneath space and spatialized time, there 

 is never any question. Yet it is indeed beneath this plane 

 that our consciousness places us; there flows true duration. 



In this respect, also, Kant is very near his predecessors. 

 Between the non-temporal, and the time that is spread 

 out in distinct moments, he admits no mean. And as 

 there is indeed no intuition that carries us into the non- 

 temporal, all intuition is thus found to be sensuous, by 

 definition. But between physical existence, which is 

 spread out in space, and non-temporal existence, which 

 can only be a conceptual and logical existence like that 



