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Thus the transcendental and only determinate conception of God, which is presented to us by speculative reason, is in the strictest sense deistic. These again have a still higher end--the answer to the question, what we ought to do, if the will is free, if there is a God and a future world. In other words, it must be perfectly indifferent to you whether you say, when you have discovered this unity; God has wisely willed it so; or; Nature has wisely arranged this. SECTION V. Of the Impossibility of a Cosmological Proof of the Existence of God. It is very remarkable, although naturally it could not have been otherwise, that, in the infancy of philosophy, the study of the nature of God and the constitution of a future world formed the commencement, rather than the conclusion, as we should have it, of the speculative efforts of the human mind. But since the moral precept is, at the same time, my maxim (as reason requires that it should be), I am irresistibly constrained to believe in the existence of God and in a future life; and I am sure that nothing can make me waver in this belief, since I should thereby overthrow my moral maxims, the renunciation of which would render me hateful in my own eyes. These unavoidable problems of mere pure reason are God, freedom (of will), and immortality. Now we must admit that the doctrine of the existence of God belongs to doctrinal belief.