[Footnote 25: I am aware, that this word occurs neither in Johnson’s
Dictionary nor in any classical writer. But the word, to intend, which
Newton and others before him employ in this sense, is now so completely
appropriated to another meaning, that I could not use it without
ambiguity: while to paraphrase the sense, as by render intense, would
often break up the sentence and destroy that harmony of the position of
the words with the logical position of the thoughts, which is a beauty
in all composition, and more especially desirable in a close
philosophical investigation. I have therefore hazarded the word,
intensify: though, I confess, it sounds uncouth to my own ear.]
[Footnote 26: And Coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a grin.]
[Footnote 27: Videlicet; Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Mode, each
consisting of three subdivisions. See Kritik der reinen Vernunft. See
too the judicious remarks on Locke and Hume.]
[Footnote 28: St. Luke x. 21.]
[Footnote 29: An American Indian with little variety of images, and a
still scantier stock of language, is obliged to turn his few words to
many purposes, by likenesses so clear and analogies so remote as to
give his language the semblance and character of lyric poetry
interspersed with grotesques. Something not unlike this was the case of
such men as Behmen and Fox with regard to the Bible. It was their sole
armoury of expressions, their only organ of thought.]
[Footnote 30: The following burlesque on the Fichtean Egoisnsus may,
perhaps, be amusing to the few who have studied the system, and to
those who are unacquainted with it, may convey as tolerable a likeness
of Fichte’s idealism as can be expected from an avowed caricature.
The Categorical Imperative, or the annunciation of the new Teutonic God,
EGOENKAIPAN: a dithyrambic ode, by QUERKOPF VON KLUBSTICK, Grammarian,
and Subrector in Gymmasic.
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