The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 309 Hume is ignorant of the Supreme Being , yet his ignorance is so naïve, that he all but lifted the veil of Isis . His “ Ignorance " is in every way equivalent to Berkeley's “ God .” It is absolutely true of Kant , who set himself the question , “ Must we believe that Mysticism is like some vast ocean , the empire of illusion ? " And then again and again answered in the negative . He proposed time after time that Reason be its own end , founded upon Right and Duty , and in the Freedom of the “ Person ," the moral sublimity of “ Duty ”: It is not so much because it is subject to the moral law that the person has sublimity , but because it gives that law to itself , and is not subject to it on any other condi tion.2 Expressing himself with regard to the free - being , Kant says : “ In him no act would be born , and no act would perish .” In other words the “ free - being " is a " yogi " pure and simple . Kant's à priori takes the place of Hume's “ Ignor ance ,” which we have seen none other than Berkeley's “ God .” It is absolutely true of Huxley , who was as astute a thinker as Hume : The succession of mental states in ideation is not for tuitous . Thus the idea of the word horse presented itself to my 3 ور was 1 Critique of Pure Reason , i, p . 304 . 2 The Bases of Morals , p . 87 . 3 Critique of Pure Reason , p . 140 .