"But there is no doubt that Fichte's philosophy was, in almost every respect, the very opposite of the rational empiricism of the mechanists and materialists. If they tended to believe in the primacy of matter, Fichte denied that it had any reality; if they attempted to found all knowledge on empirical evidence, Fichte strove to erect a system that was purely deductive; if they based science on the concept of strict causation, his key concept was Freedom; and it at least some of them managed to combine the mechanical philosophy with theist beliefs, Fichte evolved a form of ethical pantheism that rigidly excluded the possibility of a personal God."
-- Friedrich Schlegel, Hans Eichner, 1970, p. 77.
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