Excerpt from The Centenary of Kant's Death: Read February 12, 1904 But I have yet to mention that part of Kant's intellectual activity which is his most enduring title to renown, the Critical or Tran scendental Philosophy. If Kant's activity had ceased before his bringing out the first edition of The Kritik of the Pure Reason in 1781, his fifty-seventh year, his influence on the thought of civilized man would have been comparatively slight, and we should not have assembled here to-day to celebrate his memory. It was because it affected the subjective aspect of experience, our knowledge or surmise of the universe, of which we find ourselves inhabitants, as distinguished from the objective aspect of that experience, the universe of persons and things as it appears to be in itself inde pendently of experience, that Kant's new theory of the composition of experience had such far-reaching and spirit-stirring effects. It was a theory of the generating principles or factors of that experience as such. This world and the material universe of which it was a part, said Kant, we knew only by means of, or as part of, our experience; then how came about our experience itself, how was it composed, what was its value? It could not come as a direct impression or picture from the world or the material universe as they appeared to be independently of ourselves, because, as they so appeared to be, they were the result of our experiencing, - they might contain, or be the appearance of, some factors of that experience, but we ourselves, as we appeared to ourselves, must contain others, which did not appear, but which were no less essential. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.