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Hume, with all their delusive subtleties, found 

 means to render themselves easily intelligible. Is 

 there not reason, then, to suspect, either that the 

 system of Professor Kant is made up of hetero- 

 geneous, inconsistent and incomprehensible mate- 

 rials; or that, in order to disguise the old and well 

 known philosophy of certain English and French 

 writers, and to impose it on the world as a new 

 system, he has done little more than present it un- 

 der a new technical vocabulary of his own? Or, 

 which is, perhaps, not the most improbable sup- 

 position, that, being sensible of the tendency of his 

 philosophy to undermine all religion and morals, 

 as hitherto taught and prized in the world, he has 

 studied to envelope in an enigmatic language, a 

 system which he wishes to be understood by the in- 

 itiated alone; a system which has been pronounced 

 " an attempt to teach the sceptical philosophy of 

 Hume in the disgusting dialect of scholasticism?!* 

 At any rate, notwithstanding all the unwearied 

 pains which some of the disciples of this famous 

 Prussian have taken, to rescue him from the im- 

 putation of being one of the sceptical philosophers 

 of the age, the most impartial judges will pro- 

 bably assign him a place among those metaphysical 

 empirics of modern times, whose theoretical jar- 

 gon, instead of being calculated to advance sci- 

 ence, or to forward human improvement, has 

 rather a tendency to delude, to bewilder, and to 

 shed a baneful influence on the true interests of man. 

 The system of Kant has found numerous friends 

 and commentators, particularly in Germany, who 

 contend, that it sets limits, on the one hand, to 

 the scepticism of Hume; while, on the other, it re- 

 futes and overturns materialism, fatalism, and athe- 

 ism, as well as fanaticism and infidelity. Among 

 those who have distinguished themselves as the 

 friends and advocates of this system, Reinhold, 



