That this truth should nowadays sound paradoxical, which would not have been the case in the first thirty years after the appearance of the Critique of Reason, is due to the fact that a generation has grown up that does not know Kant properly, because it has never heard more of him than a hasty, impatient lecture, or an account at second-hand;
haurren errealismo natural horretan harrapaturik, zeinean gu guztiok jaiotzen baikara, eta zeinak edozertarako ahalbidetuko baikaitu, filosofiarako izan ezik. Ondorioz hori lehen harekiko adin-txikikoa helduarekiko dagoen harreman berean baitago.