In  view  of  the  law  which  we  evolved  by  our  analy-
sis of  pure  reason  and  which  showed  that  all  under-
standing, all  thought,  is  based  on  some  perceptible
object,  on  some  quantity  of  sense  perceptions,  it  is
evident  that  everything  distinguished  by  our  faculty
of  distinction  is  a  certain  quantity  and  that,  therefore,
all  distinctions  are  only  quantitative,  not  absolute,
only  graduated,  not  irreconcilable.  Even  the  differ-
ence between  the  reasonable  and  the  unreasonable,  or
in  other  words  between  that  which  is  momentarily
or  individually  reasonable  and  that  which  is  generally
reasonable,  is  merely  a  quantitative  distinction,  like
all  others,  so  that  the  unreasonable  may  be  condi-
tionally reasonable,  and  nothing  is  unreasonable  but
that  which  is  supposed  to  be  unconditionally  reason-
able.
