that bears it (Luke vi. 43, 44; cf. Matthew vii. 16-18); and then in the following verse (Luke vi. 45), we read: ? ??a??? ?????p?? ?? t?? ??a??? ??sa???? t?? ?a?d?a? a?t?? p?????e? t? ??a??? ?a? ? p??�??? ?????p?? ?? t?? po????? ??sa???? t?? ?a?d?a? a?t?? p?????e? t?p??????. (Cf. Matthew xii. 35.)

But it was Kant who first completely cleared up this important point through his profound doctrine of the empirical and intelligible character.

He showed that the empirical character, which manifests itself in time and in multiplicity of action, is a phaenomenon; while the reality behind it is the intelligible character, which, being the essential constitution of the Thing in itself underlying the phaenomenon, is independent of time, space, plurality, and change.