of German philosophy depended nevertheless on his pride, and on the eager rivalry of the younger generation to discover if possible something — at all events “new faculties” — of which to be still prouder! — But let us reflect for a moment — it is high time to do so. “How are synthetic judgments a priori POSSIBLE?” Kant asks himself — and what is really his answer? “BY MEANS OF A MEANS (faculty)” — but unfortunately not in five words, but so circumstantially, imposingly, and with such display of German profundity and verbal flourishes, that one altogether loses sight of the comical niaiserie allemande involved in such an answer. People were beside themselves with delight over this new faculty, and the jubilation reached its climax when Kant further discovered a moral faculty in