lionorarium for the two volumes. In the latter case
you would certainly receive for nothing the work of my
whole life, but I did not undertake it for money, and I
have continued it till old age with iron perseverance.
At the same time I know that so extensive a book must
cost you a great deal for printing and paper, which will
only be repaid after a long time. Your complaints
about the small sale, your assiu-ance of having destroyed
many copies, remain in my memory, and have caused
me much sorrow ; although I know that it was not the
book, but the incapability of the public and the crafti-
ness of the university philosophers, who lead it according
to their personal wishes, which was at fault. Meanwhile,
however, I do not wish you to siLstain any loss through
my affairs, not even if you are rich : therefore I arrange
the conditions in such a manner that loss would be im-
possible. For I have gradually succeeded in gaining a
small public for my writings. One day it will be a
very large one, and my book will go through many
editions, though I may not live to see it. I have
already got so far in the final revision of the second
volume that it will be ready for print in a month's time ;
then, while you are printing the second volume, I would
make some trifling alterations in the first ; these would
be more considerable in the criticism of Kant's philo*
sophy, which forms the appendix, and may thus fill up
another sheet. — Awaiting your reply,' &c.
