ABSTRACT
Immanuel Kant, as explained earlier, grew up in a very pious household. His mother, a woman of gentle nature and genuine religious feeling, used to take him with her, from an early age, on her regular visits to F. A. Schultz's prayer meetings. When they went for walks together, she continually drew his attention to the 'works of God' and awakened in him 'awe of the creator of all things'. These impressions of his early youth were never quite extinguished in Kant. During his eight years' residence at the Collegium Fredericianum he was powerfully influenced by the spirit of Pietism, which held particularly marked sway over that institution. But in spite of the prolonged after-effect of his early religious upbringing, he later turned away more and more from biblical Christianity. He went to church only when his academic position required him to do so on some special occasion.
