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    also those acute and * logical reasonsrs who have built up laudable superstructures upon a foundation , alijt ^ to what seamen call " cape fly-away , " - the meaning of Kant not

    having been pierced , and remaining as much underground as ever ; there have yet been , and are , a few writers of the present age , who seem to have hit upon the real German mine , £ nd after groping long and arduously amidst the rich darkness , have even bored their way up into the light with some good specimen of the pure ores .

    The most prominent among these few , is Mr . Wirginan , and a disciple more conversant with the spirit and letter of his master , or more indefatigable in promulgating his doctrines , the sun never saw . He seems to live chiefly for that purpose ,

    and if you are only once in his company you have no . Chance of escaping some inoculation of the Kantesian principles . * But if it has cost him a world of pains and labour to understand yvhat the philosopher really meant , it has probably been almost as arduous a task for him to reduce the theory to a plain and as arduous a task for him to reduce the theory to a plain and

    intelligible form . As if , however , to prove tne extent of his triumph , he has recently put forth a little tract on the subject , to be taught " in all the infant schools throughout the kingdom . " It should seem that this must he a sort of private joke to Mr . Wirgman ; and yet he has successfully managed it

    according to the terms of his proposition . He begins with a " Song of the Five Senses ; " and furthermore astounds our gravities by the intimation that it is to be sung " to the tune of the Highland Laddie ! " Also , we have been informed , that in course of conversation he sometimes

    sings it himself , and in a very intelligent manner . This is the song , and we do request it be not unwiselythat is , beyond measure—laughed at ; or that , after beinglaughed at , it be dissected and thought upon .

    SONG OF THE FIVE SENSES . Tuns—iftgr / ifafui Laddie . ! . A « ture as I am here alive , I have Senses , I have Senses ; One , two , three , and four , and five , All my Senses , All my Senses ;

    —T —*• r « ¦ — — ' ' " ¦ ' '» ' _ * vThWi pp true enough . He i « absolutely charged with them . He girdt ofl" tran-* c * fideftUl peria in the firtt ihak « of th « hand , aad tft * r * is a KaiU « 4 io * matotu » tfMft / tUtf * ft * ft T »* » r « r * ft » r . —Jfrr .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/30/