The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 227 sented by things perfectly in ert , as our own ideas are." P. 92 may form , with regard to the origin of worlds , and the sit . uation of nature , from , and to eternity ?” — P . 173 . 66 ex “ For all the notion I have of God is obtained by reflect ing on my own soul , heighten ing its powers , and removing its imperfections . I have , therefore , though not an in active idea , yet in myself some sort of an active thinking im age of the Deity . And though I perceive Him not by sense , yet I have a notion of Him , or know Him by reflexion and reasoning .” — P. 93 . " The existence , therefore , of any being can only be proved by arguments from its cause or its effect ; and these arguments are founded entirely on perience . . . It is only ex perience , which teaches us the nature and bounds of cause and effect , and enables us to infer the existence of one ob ject from that of another . Such is the foundation of moral reasoning .” — P. 174 . KANT On Hume's despairing " something ," Kant builds his à priori , and though the detail of his criticism differs from that of Hume's , in the main result it coincides , arriving at the same unleapable ditch , the limitation of all knowledge regarding the reality of phenomena as revealed to us by our senses . Hume starting with the proposition that ideas are copied from impressions ends in the unknown ; Berkeley through a similar process declares bankruptcy in God : Kant does likewise , stating in his “ Critic of pure Reason " : “ All knowledge ( touching an object of mere reason ) can be communicated not logically but morally ... I am morally certain ... etc. ” But what he means by the word “ morally ” he does not ex plain , postulating in place of an explanation an “ à priori certainty ." To Hume's scepticism he answers :