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58 THE FOTJEFOLD BOOT. fCHAP. IV.
Sophy cut after the pattern of Judaism. Still, that severely
tested truth, far from being disturbed by all this, as a
sure datum and criterion, as a true SOQ p.oi irov ar&, proves
the futility of all that old-woman s philosophy and the
urgent need of a fundamentally different, incomparably
view of the Universe and of Man no matter
deeper ;
whether that view be compatible with the official duties
of a professional philosopher or not,
V
21. A priori character of the conception of Causality.
Intellectual Character of Empirical Perception.
THE UNDERSTANDING.
In the professorial philosophy of our philosophy-pro
fessors we are still taught to this day, that perception of the
outer world is a thing of the senses, and then there fol
lows a long dissertation upon each of the five senses;
whereas no mention whatever is made of the intellectual
character of perception : that is to say, of the fact, that it
is mainly the work of the Understanding, which, by means
of its own peculiar form of Causality, together with the
forms of pure sensibility, Time and Space, which are pos
tulated by Causality, primarily creates and produces the
objective, outer world out of the raw material of a few sen
sations. And yet in its principal features, I had stated
this matter in the first edition of the present treatise 1
and soon after developed it more fully in my treatise
" On
Vision and Colours" (1816), of which Professor Rosas has
shown his appreciation by allowing it to lead him into
plagiarism. 2 But our professors of philosophy have not
1 Anno 1813, pp. 53-55.
" 2 For further details see my Will in Nature," p. 19 of the 1st edition,
and p. 14 of the 3rd. (P. 230 et "
seqq. of the translation of the Will in
"
Nature," which follows the Fourfold Root" in the present volume.)