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KANT'S POSITION IN PHILOSOPHY.
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platform for the discussion of all the more comprehensive problems of philosophy for some time to come. Hegel boasted of having superseded Kant, with how much of truth we now see. The study of Kant is being resumed on all sides, while Hegel, when studied at all (as he undoubtedly deserves to be), is studied by the side of Kant and in the light of Kant. Adapting the words used by an eminent modern historian in reference to Gibbon and the study of history to Kant and the study of philosophy, we may say, "Whatever else is read" Kant "must be read too."