The philosopher of Konigsberg, who in his Critique of
Pure Eeason has made the most of some well-known objec-
tions against those arguments for God's existence, which are
drawn from the existence and structure of the universe, 1
insists with great force upon the strength of the inference
by which the human conscience ascends to the recognition
of God. If Kant is a sceptic in the domain of speculative
thought, his doubts vanish altogether when, entering that
of the practical reason, as he terms it, he listens to the
commands of moral truth. 2 This practical reason is wholly
independent of any discovery or decision external to itself:

omnibus iis quae circumstant fores carnis meae : Dixistis milii <le Deo meo
quod vos non estis, dicite mihi de illo aliquid. Et exclaxnaverunt voce
magnfi, : Ipse fecit nos.
1 Luthardt, Apologet. Vortr. L. Hi. Scholten, PhiL in ReL, p. 100.
■ Kritik d. reinen Vernunft, Abt. ii. B. 2, kap. 3, §§ 4, 5, 6.
