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lift the pantheism dispute to a higher level.^241 He also aimed a number of
thinly disguised cheap shots at Kant. These developments did more to
spread Kant's ideas than did the efforts that his friends undertook at his
behest, but Kant was not happy about them. Nor should he have been. For
they contained the seeds that would lead his younger contemporaries to
reject his system even before his death.