268 Kant: A Biographylecturing on "philosophical theology" with an "amazing" number of stu¬
dents in attendance, while at the same time working on the "publication
of the rest of his works" and "conferring with Magister and Court Chaplain
Schulz, who also is writing about the Critique."^74
Kant had sent Schulz a copy of the Critique on August 3, 1781, saying
that he had proved his acuity in his review of the Inaugural Dissertation,
and in fact had "penetrated the dry material best among all those who judged
the book." Since Schulz had spurred him on to continue his thoughts, he
was sending him the result, that is, the Critique, hoping that he would have
the time to examine and judge it. Schulz appears to have had little time —
or his study of the Critique took a very long time - for he only answered
on August 21,1783, that he had read the book and was willing to publish a
review. In fact, he sent Kant a manuscript that summarized the work, and
added a number of questions that he wanted clarified.^75 Kant answered on
August 22, sending him the Garve review for examination, saying it was
better thought through than the one published in the Göttingische Anzeigen.
He also said that he had heard through Jenisch, their common student,
that he had a draft of his evaluation, and he asked Schulz to hold back the
review, and to think about how others might be instructed to approach the
work. It would be a good thing if Schulz thought of his project as a book,
rather than as a review. Four days later, Kant wrote another letter, saying
that Schulz had "penetrated deeply and correctly into the spirit of the
project," and that he had "almost nothing to change" in the manuscript.
If he transformed the review into a book, then a few passages on the Di¬
alectic should be inserted. Kant promised that he would send Schulz some
materials soon, but he never got around to doing it.^76 Part of the reason
for this was perhaps that Schulz himself had noticed some omissions and
remedied the shortcomings. Kant finally wrote to him on the eve of pub¬
lication, answering some of the questions Schulz had raised earlier, ex¬
pressing his hope that Schulz could still use his answers to change the
manuscript: "For nothing can be more desirable for the enemies than to
find lack of uniformity in the principles."^77
Kant was happy, for on March 4,1784, he sent to Schulz a coin that had
been occasioned by the very book on which he was commenting. "A num¬
ber of my students had kept secret the plan to surprise me with such a sign
of sympathy. They were so effective that I only found out about it when I
received last Sunday an exemplar in the mail from Berlin.... I have heard
that Mendelssohn thought out the symbol and motto, and it honors his