IMMANUEL KANT PLATO WITH AN EXCURSUS ON THE ESSENCE OF LIFE From the Gods a gift to the human race thus should I reckon the gift of seeing the one in the many. Plato,last the threads that we have been spinning in our previous lectures run together into warp and woof. I had to start with the Goethe lecture in order to speak of ideas so that my meaning should be perceived without the Leonardo lecture,-in which I endeavoured to draw an accurate distinction between that which is pure and that which is empirical, and consequently between mathematical natural science, and artistic intuition of nature, I could hardly have attained a consideration of the true Plato, in the face of so many deeply rooted misunderstandings which had to be swept away the Descartes lecture is adapted to lay the foundation of the present lecture, as teaching the importance of the dualistic method of observation for all criticism of the human intellect, of which it, at the same time, furnishes you with a plastic...