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Our representations must be given previously to any analysis of them; and no conceptions can arise, quoad their content, analytically. We may divide the methods at present employed in the field of inquiry into the naturalistic and the scientific. I HUMBLY SOLICIT FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THE FOLLOWING: But every transcendental proposition sets out from a conception, and posits the synthetical condition of the possibility of an object according to this conception. But in this case the conception of the contingent is cogitated as involving not the category of modality (as that the non-existence of which can be conceived) but that of relation (as that which can exist only as the consequence of something else), and so it is really an identical proposition; "That which can exist only as a consequence, has a cause." In fact, when we have to give examples of contingent existence, we always refer to changes, and not merely to the possibility of conceiving the opposite.* But change is an event, which, as such, is possible only through a cause, and considered per se its non-existence is therefore possible, and we become cognizant of its contingency from the fact that it can exist only as the effect of a cause. This is the second part of our argument; and if it can be made evident, we may conclude, that morality is not an object of reason. But that reason, according to this hypothesis, discovers also vice and virtue. Vice, when placed on another, excites, by means of its double relations, the passion of hatred, instead of love, which for the same reason arises from virtue.