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world’s history, and good is no longer meaningless; we have 
got the key to unlock its meaning, it 1s first the fulfilment of 
amoral order, it is next the fulfilment of the will of God. And 
observe how such a conception brings back to us the neces- 
sity for enlightenment, for culture, for knowledge, for thought; 
it is not an intuitive conception, this good; itis something 
the meaning of which we have to discover. We have to 
study science, history, in order that we may find out how the 
Divine Will is being fulfilled; and instead of the old arid, 
dry idea of being good in order that we may be happy here- 
after, we have arrived ata conception whose richness and 
fulness are practically inexhaustible. On us is laid at once 
the privilege and the burden of first discovering and then 
helping in the fulfilment of a world-wide moral order—of 
being in the truest sense fellow-workers with God. 
The Cuarrman (the Venerable Archdeacon Tuornron, D.D.).— 
I am sure we are all really indebted to Dr. Courtney for his very 
thoughtful paper, which is now open for discussion. 
Mr. W. H. Rosinson—suggested that Kant may possibly have 
in part derived his philosophy from that of India; after referring 
to the remarkable theories of the universe current there, he 
observed that the great difference between the Philosophy of India 
and that taught by Kant was, that the one said all was thought, 
and ended there, and the other was intended to lead us to action. 
The Cuarrman.—There is really nothing that I can say against the 
paper, and therefore what I say is not in the way of discussion, but 
rather to profess my allegiance to Dr. Courtney in what he has said. 
I think he has pointed out the position of Kantian philosophy very 
accurately indeed. There was a period when it was not yet time 
for Kant to appear. We can look back to a period when it would 
have been too early for him to appear, but as ‘‘ after the Children 
of Israel were sent into the brick-fields then came Moses,” so Kant 
was raised up at the right time. He is called the philosopher of 
scepticism. I think those who use this phrase confound the 
scepticism of Kant’s philosophy with scepticism in religion. A 
true philosopher must be more or less a sceptic ; but scepticism in 
