ABSTRACT
Kant fails to overcome the difficulties concerning identity because they cannot be overcome. There is no refuge but incoherence from the question how the connexion is to be made, in the way of identity, between the natural being, the man, with a mental history of thoughts, perceptions, and feelings and the supersensible being, with no history at all, "in which the representation of time has its original ground". It is, indeed, an old belief that reason is something essentially out of time and yet in us. Doubtless it has its ground in the fact that the propositions of logic and mathematics, certified by reason alone, appear to owe nothing to, and to fear nothing from, the accidents of time. And we grasp these timeless truths. But it is too late, now, in the day to think that who grasps timeless truths must himself be timeless.
