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Coleridge was riding the high German horse, and demonstrating the 'Categories of the Transcendental Philosophy' to the author of _The Road to Ruin_, who insisted on his knowledge of German and German metaphysics, having read the 'Critique of Pure Reason' in the original. 'My dear Mr. Holcroft,' said Coleridge, in a tone of infinitely provoking conciliation, 'you really put me in mind of a sweet pretty German girl of about fifteen, in the Hartz Forest, in Germany, and who one day, as I was reading The Limits of the Knowable and the Unknowable,
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What! you read Kant? Why, I, that am a German born, don't understand him!
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It was a suggestive topic, and proved a fruitful one. Mr. Hazlitt, who was there, has left an account behind him of the kind of talk which arose out of this hint, so lightly thrown out by the author of
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Elia,