Excerpt from The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 1879, Vol. 13 But besides the capital mistake of Schopenhauer, another emerges here which (already referred to) is scarcely less glaring. It is that the synthesis leaves undetermined which of two perceived states is the prior even in my imagina tion. Impressions ih my imagination, so long as they are subjective, shall be at command of my own will - to be set here or set there, like pebbles on the beach, just as I please! But there is no such absurd doctrine as that in Kant, who knows, as everybody knows, that our imagination, be its power of action what it may, is passive to the order of its impressions, and cannot but be passive. Kant is, really, as. 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.