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Professor Royce delivered his fourth lecture on Modern Thinkers in Sanders Theatre last night before a large audience. The subject was Kant. The many-sidedness of Kant's thought, the lecturer said, has in the first place made the difficulty of completely understanding him so enormous that the reading of the "Critique of Pure Reason" has become a sort of liberal profession in Germany. The age in which Kant lived was ripe for the "Critique" In twenty-five years it so thoroughly won over to metaphysics a nation previously little given to philosophy that Heine said; "God has given France...
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...Notes.- Kant was born in 1724; received his appointment as Professor in the university of his native city, Konigsberg (in far eastern Prussia) in 1770; published the "Critique of Pure Reason" in 1781; published his other principal works between this year and 1793; and died in 1804. The best English translation of the Critique is that by Max Muller. The translation in Bohn's Library, by Meiklejohn, is now regarded as superseded. Wallace's "Kant" in Blackwood's Philosophical Library (Edinburgh and Philadelphia, 1882), Edward Caird's "Critical Philosophy of Immanual Kant" (2d. ed., New York, Macmillan...