APPENDIX. OF RATIONALISM AND SUPRA-RATIONALISM. BIBLIOLOGY. Kant. Religion innerhalb der Grentzen d. reinen Vernunft. Königsberg, Zweite Auflage, 1794. Religion within the bounds of Naked Reason. Königsberg, 2d edition, 1794. Kant. Königsberg, 1798. Streit der Facultäten. The Battle of the Faculties. This book is dedicated to Dr Stäudlin, and was originally intended for his Theological Journal. Republished by Tieftrunk in the third volume of Kant's Miscellaneous Writings. Halle, 1799. Stäudlin. Geschichte der Sittenlehre Jesu. Göttingen, 1799. History of the Ethic of Jesus. Stäudlin's Rationalismus und Supernaturalismus. Göttingen, 1825. Der Prophet Iesaia. Neu übersetzt und mit einem Commentar begleitet, von Dr W. Gesenius. Leipzig, 1820. Gesenius' Translation and Commentary on Isaiah. The Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated. By W. Warburton, D. D. Lord Bishop of Gloucester, V. Y. and London, 1812. THUS have we seen how ethic issues in religion; and the reader who has made himself acquainted with Kant's tenets, cannot fail to have been struck by the strong resemblance ob taining betwixt the Ethic of pure Reason and the moral scheme of Christianity. So alike indeed are they, that in Germany they are usually taken to be the same; only it is said in the case of holy writ, the doctrines are HISTORICAL, whereas, in the hands of our author, morals have been ushered into public view arrayed in the vestment of a strictly SCIENTIFIC garb. Now, to facilitate the understanding of what the Germans mean by saying that A THEORY may be subjectively-historical, although at the same time objectively-rational, let us take for a moment a supposed example from a more familiar science. Let it, for instance, be granted that the modern Cophts had forgotten their mathematics, and that, to reinstruct them in that geometry which once sprang from Egypt, our Royal Society should depute some of their body to make a landing at Alexandria, and there instruct the Cophts in the long-forgotten doctrines of their fathers. Then suppose farther, that the learned men thus commissioned should, to prevent these barbarians from again letting drop out of mind the truths of geometry, think fit to record their proceedings in a book; and, to object the memory of it yet more to their minds, should farther cut the fields into the diagrams needed for the demonstrations, intersecting the soil with circular, elliptic, or parabolic segments of canals, as the case might be; and that the book of geometry should be made specially to refer to these local figures; then would the Cophts have a historical and local geometry, and such geometry would be QUITE TRUE, for it would contain the scientific in it, and the one would not be contrary to the other; so that a Copht, who had begun and ended his geometric studies by help of the HISTORIC VOLUME, and had seen the requisite configurations of space in the LOCAL DIAGRAMS of his country and its canals, would nevertheless have in him as sound and exact a geometry as any other person, who, apart from any such historical and local vehicle, had entered at once on a course of purely scientific mathematics. The Cophts, however, being barbarous, might long think that the knowledge of geometry adhered to these local configurations, and was inseparable from them, and could have no establishment apart from their written book, until, in due course of |