Dissertation on the Progress of the Moral Sciences, repeatedly 

 mentions Kant's speculations, and always unfavourably. In 

 note I to Part I. of the Dissertation he says, " In our own 

 times, Kant and his followers seem to have thought that they 

 had thrown a strong light on the nature of space and also 

 of time, when they introduced the word form (form of the 

 intellect] as a common term applicable to both. Is not this 

 to revert to the scholastic folly of verbal generalization f 

 And in Part II. he gives a long and laborious criticism of 

 a portion of Kant's speculations ; of which the spirit may 

 be collected from his describing them as resulting in " the 

 metaphysical conundrum, that the human mind (considered as 

 a noumenon and not as a phenomenon) neither exists in space 

 nor time,"' And after mentioning Meiners and Herder along 

 with Kant, he adds, " I am ashamed to say that in Great 

 Britain the only one of these names which has been much 

 talked of is Kant." And again in Note EE, he translates 

 some portion of the German philosopher, adding, that to the 

 expressions so employed he can attach no meaning. 



But notwithstanding the unfavourable judgments of the 

 Kantian doctrines which have thus prevailed both among 

 cultured and uncultured men in this country, there have been 

 other persons who have thought more highly of those doc- 

 trines. This estimation, on the part of some of our country- 

 men, has probably been produced in a great measure by the 

 enduring reputation of Kant in Germany, and the importance 

 which continues to be there ascribed to his views. And the 

 course taken by several English writers, thus favourably dis- 

 posed to the philosophy of Kant, has been to praise the 

 philosophy in general terms, but to disparage the doctrines 

 of Kant when presented by English writers, in an English 

 dress. For instance, when the Philosophy of the Inductive 

 Sciences was published (in 1840), the arguments which Kant 

 employed to shew that space and time are forms of our per- 



