This is, indeed, nothing but a complete falsification of human cognition. It is evident to an unbiassed mind that there must be a reason for everything, not because I so think, but I think so because such is the fact; that the multiplication table is right, not because I think so, but I must multiply according to it simply because it is right. My thought is subject to objective truth. But _Kant’s_ autonomy means emancipation from objective truth, and hence, though _Kant_ himself held fast to the unchangeable laws of thinking and acting, he energetically opened the way for subjectivism with all its consequences. This was _Kant’s_ doing, and history credits him with it. It was one of those events which have made men famous: the giving to the ideas and sentiments of a period their scientific formula, and thereby also their apparent justification. _Schiller_ wrote in 1805 to _W. von Humboldt_: “The profound fundamental ideas of ideal philosophy remain an enduring treasure, and for this reason alone one should think himself fortunate for having lived at the present time.... Finally, we are both idealists, and should be ashamed to have it said of us that things made us and not we the things.” _Fr. Paulsen_ gives expression to the opinion of many when he says: “_Kant_ gives to the intellect the self-determination that is essential to it, and the position in the world which it deserves. He has raised the intellect’s creative power to a position of honour: the essence of the intellect is freedom” (Immanuel Kant, 1898, p. 386). “The autonomy of reason ... we cannot give up” (_Kant_, Der Philosoph des Protestantismus, in Philosophia militans, 2d ed., 1901, p. 51). “It is indeed the offspring of Protestantism.” “To me it is beyond doubt,” _Paulsen_ continues, “that the fundamental tendency of primitive Protestantism has here been carried out in all clearness” (Ibid. 43). _Luther_, too, found in the heart of the individual the unfailing source of truth. For that reason _Kant_ has been called the philosopher of Protestantism. Hence the well-known historian, _J. Scherr_, may not be wrong when he calls the philosophy of _Kant_ “the foundation of granite whereon is built the freedom of the German intellect.”