text:  Therefore reject Hegel "that merely thinking on a barren heath speculating self-sufficient self-satisfied little EGO;"[E] and consider Kant as weighed in the balance and found wanting on his own showing: for if that critical portal of pure reason had indeed been sufficient as it gave itself out to be for all the purposes of a human philosophy what need was there of the "practical back-door" which at the categorical command of conscience was afterwards laid open to all men in the "Metaphysic of Ethics?" As little will you allow your philosophical need to be satisfied with any thing you can get from SCHELLING; for however well it sounds to "throw yourself from the transcendental emptiness of ideal reason into the warm embrace of living and luxuriant nature " here also you will find yourself haunted by the intellectual phantom of absolute identity (say absolute inanity ) or in its best phasis a "pantheizing deification of nature