clearly “comprehending” the “Supersensuous,” and at last endowed with a perfect “intellectual intuition” of it.

Every dreamer could now promulgate his mental freaks as the “absolute,” i.e., officially issued, deliverances, and revelations of this Reason. Nor need we be surprised if the new privilege was fully taken advantage of.

Here, then, is the origin of that philosophical method which appeared immediately after Kant, and which is made up of clap-trap, of mystification, of imposture, of deception, and of throwing dust in the eyes. This era will be known one day in the History of Philosophy as “The Period of Dishonesty.” For it was signalised by the disappearance of the characteristic of honesty, of searching after truth in