Excerpt from Critique of Pure Reason In the attempt to understand and explain experience, the oh server is at first greatly impressed with the difference between objects, or things without, and subject, or the inner mind, which feels, perceives, and reflects. This seems, at first, so evident and so extreme as to occasion the belief that they manifest distinct beings, or substances, essentially unlike. They are contrasted as outer and inner, extended and non-extended, passive and ac tive, object and subject, matter and spirit; the former insen sate, inert, controlled by alien force or influence; the latter intelligent, active, and free. But despite this seeming dualism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.