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of it under this hand is I confess inappropiate not only because it can be ised as well to destroy as to construct but also on the more solid ground rhat it does not deal with the deliverances of reason in onw undistinguished mass but painfully criticizes each by itself.
The methos was the invention of Kant and in his hands it consists in showing by some ingenious argument different in every case that the logical analysis of the process which the mind must go through shows that the proposition which is to be defended is involved in the a priori conditions of the possibility of practical everyday expereince. If Kant had performed all the work which a through scientific application of his method demanded he would have had to postpone the publication of his 'Critic of the Pure Reason' for another century at laest which would