"Fichte's search for his God-given mission as a young Lutheran had culminated in his philosophical view of himself as an instrument of 'speculation'".
"'Popular philosophy' became one of the major targets of Fichte's polemical wrath. His attacks were testy reactions to the charge that Kantians were returning philosophy to obscurantism and that his own writings were a particularly egregious case in point....Having tried but failed to popularize Kantianism in the Contribution*, Fichte now preferred to make philosophy rigorous, even if that meant making it, as least for a while, incomprehensible to the educated public as well as the uneducated masses."
-- Fichte, The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799, Anthony J. La Vopa, 2001, p. 206, 211.
* A Contribution toward Correcting the Judgment of the Public about the French Revolution, 1793.
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