the Ought's visibility;” and on p. 36: “An ought,” (i.e., a moral necessity,) “of the perception that I ought.” This, then, is what we have come to so soon after Kant!

His imperative Form, with its unproved Ought, which it secured as a most convenient p?? st? (standpoint), is indeed an exemplar vitiis imitabile!

For the rest, all that I have said does not overthrow the service Fichte rendered. Kant's philosophy, this late masterpiece of human sagacity, in the very land where it arose, he obscured, nay, supplanted by empty, bombastic superlatives, by extravagances, and by the nonsense which is found, in his Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre, appearing under the disguise of profound penetration. His merit was thus to show the world