ABSTRACT
That so many persistent channels of thought would be precipitated by the sudden social changes and rapid intellectual achievements in the nineteenth century, Kant might not have anticipated; much less could he have expected the uniqueness of each one of them. From Fichte to Spencer, practically all creative, systematic thinkers are agreed in the preference for the method of synthetic unification, the conception of reality as a dynamic process of development, and the organic and historic views of things and ideas; wherefore on analysing the motivating factor of human conduct they come to interpret its morality and legality in terms of some common underlying ground. Nevertheless, each stands unique by himself. He is more than competent to challenge his predecessors as well as his contemporaries.
