Notes to Pages 154—159 463- Karl Hagen, "Kantiana," Neue Preußische Provincial-Blätter 6 (1848), pp. 8-12,
p. 9. He also pointed out that his love of order and punctuality had deteriorated
into "Sonderbarkeit," and that the massive English watch that he wore still served
its present owner, that is, it still worked forty years later. See also F. Reusch, "His¬
torische Erinnerungen," Neue preußische Provincial-Blätter 5 (1848), p. 45. - Scheffner, Briefe von und an Scheffner, I, p.255 (August 16). The German is some¬
what ambiguous. Green need not have written the letters. Perhaps he just trans¬
mitted some "letters" (perhaps even a published book of letters) to Kant. Werner
Stark suggested as much to me (and this would explain why they cannot be found
in Kant's correspondence). - Vorländer, Immanuel Kant, I, p. 122 (Jachmann, Kant, p. 161).
- This was a significant event, which surprised the British, and may be seen as the
first sign of the coming revolution. The delegates to the so-called Stamp Act Con¬
gress expressed the colonists' opposition to the Stamp Act in a Declaration of
Rights and Grievances, an address to the king, and in petitions to both houses
of the British Parliament. The petitions were rejected. These developments in¬
spired Samuel Adams to found a section of the Sons of Liberty. - Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel, Der Mann nach der Uhr oder der ordentliche Mann.
Lustspiel in einem Aufzuge, ed. Erich Jenisch (Halle, 1928), pp. 3Öf. (scene 2). - Hippel, Der Mann nach der Uhr, pp. 59f (scene 11).
- Kraus in Reicke, Kantiana, p. 60 (Malter, Kant in Rede und Gespräch, p. 73). Com¬
pare Jachmann, Kant, p. 161. - Jachmann, Kant, p. 185.
- Reicke, Kantiana, p. 35: "But he most likely never played an instrument." Fur¬
thermore, though Kant was probably never much of a dancer, he was at many a
ball. But later, he did not like any of these diversions. - Compare Vorländer, Immanuel Kant, II, p. 27.
- Two of her other sisters also played a role in Kant's life, namely Albertine, who
married Hartknoch, Kant's later publisher, and Sophie, who became one of the
best friends of Hamann. - Hamann, Briefwechsel, II, p. 416. This also throws interesting light on his relation
to Knutzen. - Ak 25.2 (Menschenkunde), p. 966.
- Ak 25.2 (Menschenkunde), p. 967.
- Borowski, Leben, p. 83 (Kant did not see this).
- Heilsberg said that "in his final years" he put all his money into this firm (Reicke,
Kantiana, p. 49). - Ingrid Mittenzwei, Preussen nach dem Siebenjährigen Krieg: Auseinandersetzungen
zwischen Bürgertum und Staat um die Wirtschaftspolitik (Berlin: Akademie Verlag,
1979), p. 11. - Beck, "Moravians in Königsberg," pp. 347f.
- Hamann, Briefwechsel, II, p. 285. See also Ak 10, p. 48, pp. 13, 25.
- Ak 13, p. 24. Compare Borowski, Leben, p. 43.
- Indeed, in a postscript to the letter confirming Lindner's appointment, the Berlin
authorities basically instructed the university officials to see to it that Kant was soon
given a position (a later letter reconfirms this; see Ak 13, p. 25).