attention — that it is first introduced expressly and formally, as a deduction from certain concepts. Whereas in Reinhold's Formula concordiae des Kriticismus, we actually read on p. 122 the following sentence: “We distinguish moral self-consciousness from the experience with which it, as an original fact transcending all knowledge, is bound up in the human consciousness; and we understand by such self-consciousness the direct consciousness of duty, that is, of the necessity we are under of admitting the legitimacy — whether pleasurable or the reverse — of the will, as the stimulus and as the measure of its own operations.”

This would of course be “a charming thesis, with a very pretty hypothesis to boot.” But seriously: into what an outrageous petitio principii do we find Kant's moral law here developed!