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h\s Philosophical Arrangements, strove with equal 

 zeal, nearly about the same time, to revive the 

 philosophy of Aristotle, but without so strangely 

 distorting its features, or incumbering it with such 

 heterogeneous and whimsical additions. 



Among the new metaphysical theorists of the 

 age, it would be improper to pass in silence the ce- 

 lebrated Immanuel Kant, professor at Koenings- 

 berg, in Prussia*. This gentleman, about the 

 year 1781, first published a system of metaphysics 

 and moral philosophy, which has been ever since 

 gaining ground among the literati of Germany, 

 and is now much in vogue in that country. Pro- 

 fessor Kant, we are told, was led to the train of 

 thinking, which ripened in his mind into the sy- 

 stem which bears his name, by the perusal of Hume's 

 essay on the idea of necessary connection ; and of 

 Priestley's reply to Reid, Bcattie, and Oswald |. 



tails, and went upon all fours; but that the one dioppeJ off, and they 

 rose from the other to an erect posture by the progress of civiUsa- 

 tion 'y that the natural state of man is to live without habitation, 

 clothing, fire, or language ; that his best and only proper food is 

 raw vegetables J that there have been giants of two or three, 

 and in some instances of eight or nine, times tie height of ordi- 

 nary men in these degenerate days j that there are now hordes of 

 men with tails, and whole nations who have but One leg ; that in 

 Ethiopia there are men who have their eyes in their breasts, and 

 others who have only one eye, and that in their foreliead ! 

 Sec. 



* Immanuel Kant was born in 1 724, and is still living. Plis 

 philosophy has excited almost as much attention as that of Wolfe 

 did eighty years ago, and has called forth the talents of many of 

 the most eminent men of Germany, for and ag.iin>t it. 



t Elements of the Critical L^hilosophy, &c., by J. C. Adelung , 

 translated, with additions, by A. F. M. Wiliicb, M. D. Lond. 8vo, 

 1798. 



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