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The first thing to be taken into consideration
is the general upshot of Kant's Critic
of the Pure Reason. The first step of Kant's
thought,— the first moment of it, if you like
that phraseology,— is to recognize that
all our knowledge is, and forever must
be, relative to human experience and
to the nature of the human mind. That
conception being well digested, the second
moment of the reasoning becomes evident, namely, that as soon as
as it has been shown concerning any conception
that it is essentially involved in
the very forms of logic or other forms of
knowing, from that moment there can
no longer be any rational hesitation about