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solving tbe most essential problems of religion and philosophy; 

 for by the syllogisra we can advance to no conclusion except 

 through a more general conception. The term which must thus 

 be included under another cannot contain the Deitj, or satisfy the 

 conditions of monotheism. The Highest, therefore, cannot possi- 

 bly be reached through formal reasoning, and some other resource 

 must be depended upon for this necessity of the soul. Nothing 

 but Jacobi's intuitive cognition can yield the personal apocalypsb 

 of God. 



When the clear testimony of consciousness is universally 

 recognized as valid, then not only will Jacobi command an un- 

 qualified respect among philosophers; but objective science, as 

 well as religion, will find a rational foundation, and, according to 

 the claim of Drobisch, we shall realize in the philosophy of religioa 

 " the key-stone of the philosophical arch." 



