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rials; or that. In order to disguise tlie 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 Iiis 

 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 

 initiated alone; a system which has been pronounc- 

 ed "■ an attempt to teach the sceptical philusc)j)hy 

 of Humein the disgusting dialect of scholasticism?" 

 At any rate, notwithstanding all the unwearied 

 pains which some of the disciples of this fauious 

 Prussian have taken, to rescue him from the im- 

 putation of being one of the sceptical philosopher* 

 of the age, the most impartial judges will proba- 

 bly assign him a place among those metaphysical 

 empirics of modern times, whose theoreticul jui- 

 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 lias 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 

 refutes and overturns materialism, fatalism, and 

 atheism, as well as fanaticism and infidelity. 

 Amoni? those who have distinguished themselves 



