ON KANT'S CRITICK OF THE PURE REASON: TRANSLATED FROM THE HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY, BY PROFESSOR KUNO FISCHER, OF JENA, WITH An Introduction, Explanatory Notes, and Appendices, BY JOHN PENTLAND MAHAFFY, A. M., FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO. 17.475 K16.9 F52900 1866 PREFACE. CORRIGENDA. Page vii, line 24, Preface, for "think" read "know." tions. Even in Germany, the Schelling and Hegel fever has passed away; and most of our distinguished neighbours are again disposed to consider the great critic as νήφων παρ ̓ εἰκῆ λέγοντας τοὺς ὕστερον (if I may adapt Aristotle's remark on Anaxagoras.) Still the difficulties and obstacles which meet the student when first approaching Kant are most formidable. Clumsy as are the works of most German professors, the great Critick of Kant is even among them remarkable for cumbrousness and prolixity; and the style is not more difficult than the subject. His system is, indeed, an organic whole, where each part exists for the sake of a |
