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1805.] 
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the Moon on. the Weather. In r795,” 
*¢ The End of all Things.” * An Eter- 
nal Peace.” ** A Phiiofophical Sketch, 
elucidating his free Sentiments on Politiasay 
In.1796, ‘* To SOmmering on the Organ of 
the Soul.’” **Onthe New-fang! edhigh "Tone 
in Philofophy.”” <¢ Metapiyfical Elements 
of the Civil Law. In 1757, ‘ Upon the 
Juttineati on of Lying from good Mo- 
tives.”” “* Metaphyfical Elements of the 
Moral Law.” ‘* Declaration upon Mr; 
Schlettwine’s Challenge in a Letter from 
Greifswalde.” “* On the Power of the 
Mind in fubduing the Senfations of Pain.” 
In 1798 ‘* On Book-making, in ye Let- 
ters to Mr. Frederick Nicolai.” ** Quef- 
tion renewed, Whether the Human Race 
is in a continued State of Improvement ?” 
‘s Explanatory Ob‘ervations on the Civil 
Law for the Poffeflors of the firft Edition.’ 
** The Difpute of ‘the Faculties.’ «© A 
Pragmatical View of Anthropology.” In 
this Jatter work he takes an almott formal 
leave of the public as an author, conhening 
his papers over to the revifion ot others. 
After which he gave up all his official fitu- 
ations, and in confequence of his iofirmities 
retired into perfect folitude. He had now 
been a writer fixty years and had written 
upwardsof fixty different works, including 
thofe which were afterward s coilegted from 
his papers. Thele were in, 1801, SO Tas 
gic ; or, a Guide to Lecturing.”” —r1%o2, 
* Phyfical Geography.’ 'e-1803, “On 
giving [nitruction.”"—1804, ‘* Upon the 
Prize-Queftion of the Royal Acaiemy at 
Berlin : What is the aétual Progrefs made 
in Metaphyfical Sciences fince Leibnitz 
‘and Wolf: ei 
Kant had enjoyed for feventy years an 
almoft uninterrupredly good ftate of healtn; 
except an occafional inconven.ence in larer 
years from a diforde: in the evacuatious of 
nature, he experienced little or no badily 
pain, But, in the laft ten years his corpo- 
real and mental decay was firikingly at 
painfully vilible to his friecds.. Lo!s of 
appetite, oj fight, of voice, of teeth, of 
fireng:h, and memory, proclaimed the ap- 
preaching diflulution of this. beautif ful 
fabric of invellett. His palate which had 
been before very nice, grew to faint thet 
he couid relifh nothing, nor diftinguith 
things as oppofite as fweet and bitter. 
With the want, of tafte and teeth was alfo 
- connccied an entire relaxation of the organs, 
of faliva, fo that a year before his death he 
could not retain his fpittle when he opened 
his mouth. 
His bieath continued free and unob- 
firufied to the laf, but his voice fell off 
asd uis- language became fometimes unin- 
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' telligible. His hearing never failed him; 
but he loft the fight of one eye entirely, and 
had not the proper ule of the other. The 
re(t which he had always enjoyed at regu- 
lar hours uninterruptedly was fucceeded 
by an inclination to fleeping in the day 
and reftleffnefs at night. His {pare form 
diminithed daily, until little elie remained 
than {kin and bone ; and his thigh came 
within the grafp of one’s band. His bodi- 
ly ttrength decreaied with no lefs rapiditys 
and fo early as May, 1800, he was confia-~ 
ed to his room tn contequence of a fall 
he had received; and in the Jaf win- 
ter he was unable to leave his bed- 
chamber. 
But in nothing, perhaps, did the de- 
cay of nature dilcover itfelf fo clearly as 
in his perfect deprivation of the faculty of 
remembering. Gne intimate friend and 
fcholar of his, who had for many yearsen- 
joyed the pleafure of his fociety, was com. 
pelled a few months before his departure 
to experience the melancholy cafe cf being . 
forgotten. He entered his room with the 
ulual freedom of a friend; and, going upte 
him, embraced him Site: a fort of filial re- 
Wiat then muft have been his 
feelings upon hearing Kant declare, 
he had not the, plealure of knowing 
him? Kant treated him with his ufaal 
urbanity, and cefired him to’ be teated, 
The other did {., and uled every meaus in 
bis power to nie. ig the idea of him afreia 
in his mied, But all in. vain! 
lightening fun of his genius was fet: the 
vapour which overiread the horizon of 
his foul da:kened every object: paftvand 
prefent. He Jett him to be abenawledera 
by him no move. 
To ail thele warnings of his m: ortal end 
was added a fit of tue apoplexy. ‘This 
was followed hy increafing reflefinefs and 
debility. For tome days he lay in an on- 
confcious ftate, half dreaming and half 
waking, without tafting any thing bura 
fpoontul of liquor. His breathing | became 
inregular, and his pulle in one hand ftop- 
ped every fourth or fifth throb, then ceafed 
entirely ; when Kant towards uwelve at 
noon, on the 12th of Feoruary, 1804, 
breathed his laft as tranquilly as poffible, 
without any fymptom whatever of a v.o- 
‘ke nt fz paration. 
There is, perhaps, hardly any charac- 
ter we can view with more pleafure than 
Kant’s. Both in public and private his 
conduét was fuch as called for univerlal 
love and admiration. If the merit of an 
author can be eflimated by the degree of © 
applaule which bis works. obtain, Kant 
mouit ftand in the very highelt rank of 
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