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 12 view to "all finite thinking beings " would not change its subjectivity.

Kant declares very distinctly in the ''Grundl. z. Met. d. Sitten: 3, Abschnitt, Ros. VIII.,'' 84: "that the world of sense may be very different according to the difference of sense perception in various world beholders, while the world of understanding which lies at its foundation remains always the same." Kant has therefore adhered in all earnest, even in his "critical" period, to this idea conceived at an earlier time.—Vaihinger: Kant Commentar II., pp. 344–346.

In a chapter devoted to a discussion of the Origin of Kant's Doctrine of Space and Time, especially as to whether Kant's attitude in the year 1770 as represented by the Dissertation on the Two Worlds was wholly the result of his own thinking or caused partly by Leibnitz' Nouveaux Essais, with its clearly marked distinction between the mundus sensibilis and the mundus intelligibilis, as well as by other external influences, Prof. Vaihinger, in a footnote remarks as follows:—

"Laas calls attention to the influence of Euler, whose 'Letters to a German Princess,' 1769, Kant quotes very favourably in the Dissertation § 27, 30. The same author, in Anschluss an Dühring, Krit. Gesch. d. Phil., 396, finds in Kant's dissertation Swedenborgian influences, a view at first surprising but not to be dismissed too abruptly. Attention has been already called to this subject (referring to the passages above quoted from