nature without any final purpose beyond them in which that purpose might be actualised, would involve a contradiction. As to the [inner] constitution of that World-Cause they could contrive much nonsense. But that moral relation in the government of the world would remain always the same, which by the uncultivated Reason, considered as practical, is universally comprehensible, but with which the speculative Reason can make far from the like advance. — And in all probability attention would be directed first by this moral interest to the beauty and the purposes in nature, which would serve excellently to strengthen this Idea though they could not be the foundation of it.

Still less could that moral interest be dispensed with, because it is only in reference to the final purpose that the investigation of the