as the writer whose views he has to criticize, without stating 

 how he connects him with Kant, and goes on arguing against 

 Mm for a dozen pages to the end of the Chapter. 



On the other hand, a still more recent writer has re- 

 vived the censure of Dr WhewelTs speculations as not 

 doing justice to the Kantian philosophy. "It is much to be 

 regretted," he says *, " that Dr Whewell, who has made good 

 use of Kantian principles in many parts of his Philosophy of 

 the Inductive Sciences," has not more accurately observed 

 Kant's distinction between the necessary laws under which all 

 men think, and the contingent laws under which certain men 

 think of certain things. And further on, Mr Mansel, after 

 giving great praise to the general spirit of the Philosophy of 

 the Inductive Sciences, says " It is to be regretted that the 

 accuracy of his theory has been in so many instances vitiated 

 by a stumble at the threshold of the Critical Philosophy." 

 Mr Mansel is, indeed, by much the most zealous English 

 Kantian whose writings I have seen ; among those, I mean, 

 who have brought original powers of philosophical thought 

 to bear upon such subjects; and have not been, as some 

 have been, enslaved by an admiration of German systems, just 

 as bigotted as the contempt of them which I noticed at the 

 beginning of these remarks. And as Mr Mansel has stated 

 distinctly some of the points in which he conceives that I 

 have erred in deviating from the doctrines of Kant, I should 

 wish to make a few remarks on those points. Such specu- 

 lations will probably not have many readers ; yet the criti- 

 cisms to which I have already referred show that they have 

 some, and other criticisms of the same kind remain to be 

 noticed as I proceed. Those who attach any importance to 

 the views which have been recently promulgated on these 

 subjects, the author may hope, will be willing that he should 

 explain points in which he conceives himself to have been 

 misunderstood. 



* Prolfyomena Logica, by H. L. Mansel, M.A. 1851. 



