[21] Page 124, Note 21.--Schiller was a disciple and follower of Kant, who finds the conditions of knowledge in the thinking subject, not in the object that is thought. Since a thinking being does not acquire an insight into the laws of form by experience, but establishes them _a priori_, Kant believes that things have to conform to cognition and not cognition to things. Man thus produces truth out of his own being, and imports it into the objective world. Now it is true that truth and the criterion of truth, namely reason, develop together with mind; for indeed reason is the characteristic feature of mind. Things are real, not true, and truth can dwell in mental representations only. But considering the fact that mind develops from and by experience which originates by a contact with objects, and that reason is but the formal element extracted from experience and systematized--a consideration which Kant did not make because he never proposed the problem of the origin of mind--we shall find that the nature of reason and truth are not purely subjective. Reason is not an arbitrary classification of things (as the nominalists believe), but a formula that describes the necessary and universal relations of the objective world.--For a critical exposition of the problem see the translator’s books on Kant: _The Surd of Metaphysics_ and _Kant’s Prolegomena_ in which the question “Are there things in themselves?” is answered in the negative, but the existence of forms in themselves is insisted upon. See also the chapters on the “_A Priori_ and the Formal” in his _Primer of Philosophy_; “The Origin of the _A Priori_” in his _Fundamental Problems_; and “The Origin of Mind” in _The Soul of Man_. [22] Page 134, Note 22.--The caesura has here been placed contrary to the classical rule. [23] Page 158, Note 23.--Truth cannot directly be taken from reality but is the product of work, for facts must be observed, stated, and systematized so as to become truth. INDEX. Index. Action and motives, 44. Admiration Society, Mutual, 58. Analytical truth-seekers, 158. Answer, My, 97, 105, 107. Anti-Xenions, 9. Apollo, 85. Appearance not sham, 101. Aristotle, 94. Art, 56, 130; Christian, 168. Astronomers, 133. Authority, Those in, 71. Authors, Two different, 60, 61. Baal priests, 45. Barkers, 71. Beauty, Oneness of, 38. Beethoven, 3. Being and possession, 36. _Belles lettres_, Servant and, 62. Berkeley, 99. Bigot and philosopher, 144. Bigots, 143; (_Schwärmer_), 25. Blank verse, 19-21. Boisterous, 28. Born is the poet, 129. Bottle wine, How to, 119. Bubble in me, A, 99. Bucolic caesura, 16-17. Caesura, 14-15, 171; Bucolic, 16-17. Catalectic, 14. Celestial repasts, Pleasure in, 145. Changes and oneness, 162. Christian art, 168. Clerics, 160. Coin, 73; Depreciated, 159. Collector, The, 78. Color and light, 162.