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] und die wissenschaftliche Bedeutung eines jüdischen Denkers aus der kantischen Schule. Large 8vo. Berlin. 1876. Mecklenburg, pp. 93.

816) Naturalismus, Ueber reinen—, und positive, insonderheit christliche Religion, und deren Verhältniss zur Volksaufklärung. Large 8vo. Berlin. 1790. Akademische Kunst- und Buchhandlung. Twenty-four sheets. (This work contains a further investigation and defence of an article in the Berlinisches Journal. 1789. Vol. II, Part III: Versuch einer Untersuchung der Frage: Kann reiner Naturalismus Volksreligion werden? In both the question is answered in the negative. The public would be wrecked upon the subtleties of speculative rational religion. We need a divine authority for the moral law. In all other essential points the religion of reason and of Christ are in agreement. On the other hand, individual speculative thinkers are apt to deduce from practical reason all the truths of a complete religious system [God, freedom, immortality]. In opposition to Kant, speculative arguments are admitted to be valid under this head. The author himself gives as an instance a totally worthless speculative proof of the existence of God, based on the ground that to every mode of reality there must correspond a special faculty of intuition, and, therefore, to things-in-themselves, one which is intelligible and divine.)

817) Peucker, Jh. Gli.: Dissertatio inauguralis philosophico-critica de argumentis indirectis pro veritate idealismi critici. Halle. 1790. pp. 60. (The assertions made in opposition to the fundamental propositions of critical Idealism lead to proveably wrong results; namely, to the systems of Spinoza, Berkeley and Hume.)

818) Peucker, Jh. Gli.: Darstellung des Kantischen Systems nach seinen Hauptmomenten zufolge der Vernunftkritik, und Beantwortung der dagegen gemachten Einwürfe. Besonders zum Gebrauch akademischer Vorlesungen. Large 8vo. Grottkau and Leipzig. Schulbuchhandlung. pp. xvi, xvi, 374. (Follows very closely, when possible verbally, the R. Va. and Schultz's Erlaüterungen. Therefore a quite superfluous, valueless work. At the conclusion of certain of the principal sections are inserted polemics against Kant's opponents. Most attention is here paid to Eberhard's objections, though his name is not mentioned. The second set of xvi pages contains a bibliography of writings on and by Kant; with occasional brief criticisms. It is very incomplete.)

818a-bb) Ph. Mg. Cf. nos. 258-263, 484, 495, 504, 517-522, 541-548, 567-569, 584.

819) Pistorius, H. A. [under the title Sg.] speaks in the A. D. B., 93, II, pp. 454-458, in the course of a review of Weishaupt's writings [nos. 303- 305] of the main difference between evidence in pure mathematics and certainty in other sciences. Reprinted in Mtr., I, pp. 94-98.

820) Principien, Ueber die—des Wissens. [By Ldf. Hoist.] 8vo. Hamburg. Herold. pp. 262. (Written in an obscure, unintelligible style, which is in this case without doubt referable to want of clearness of thought. The author claims to have struck the middle path in epistemology between