University of Calcutta. Journal of the Department of Letters

Aries as the opening-point of the Christian Era) ; and that though it was the period of years commencing with True B. C. 388566—the era of the so-called Eighth 'Hathfir—which really marked the close of The Reign of Ptah as re„'ognised ealendrically lira Khe»z and the beginning of The First Reign of Ea yet it was in True B. C. 3956that the Ptah regime was actually by way of anticipation a [...] I submit that the latter is the correct view and that the idea of the scalled " Sothic Cycle "—though intellectually the priests must have anticipated it long before the opening of the Christian Era when and when only Sirius began to herald the initial rising of the Nile waters at the time of the Celestial Summer Solstice then associated with the Spheroidal point 30 Geminor therabouts [...] 2nd 55 95 'MENES AND THE SOTHIC CYCLE 13 Thus not the Commencement of the 1st G. P. Y. of the 2nd Cycle as stated by Poole but the Commencement of the 4th G. P. Y. of the 1st Cycle must have been the true Commencement of the Era of 1VIenes : and consequently not the Commencement of the 2nd G. P. Y. of the 2nd Cycle as stated by Poole but the Commencment of the 1st G. P. Y. of that Cycle [...] D. Every thoughtful reader of the Critique of Pure Reason " knows that one of the most perplexing; points in the mastery of the Kantian philosophy-is Kant's dotrine of the " thing-in-itself." This difficulty is doubless partly clue to the fact that the book primarily deals with the problem of knowledge and not with the problem of being and whatever Kant says of the latter is-somwhat in [...] (4) Having answered the three preliminary questions which we proposed concerning the Ideas of the Reason we now proceed to ascertain what is the relation of these Ideas to the concept of the " thing-in-itself." (A) The Reason as a unifying power of the mind demands for internal phenomena the unifying subject of consciousness and for external phenomena the unifying ground of the world.