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... again and again the influences then abroad beyond themselves. The influences thus uplifted were those which had found expression in the vehement idealism of the French Revolution and in German transcendentalism and Romanticism. They too were, in several respects, a help against the growing sceptical bent, but they were intellectual in their idea and substance though not untouched with keener fires... various excesses, by the grand slogan of Liberty, Equality and Frater-nity which arose from the political formula given by him in his Contrat Social to his Utopian reveries - the inspirer of German transcendentalism in which his insistence on the inner subjective determinant and judge played so decisive a role that Kant, who demonstrated the innate thought-categories and the conscious self as the unifiers ...