But even impetuous movements of the mind whether they be allied under the name of edification with ideas of religion, or, as pertaining merely to culture, with ideas involving a social interest no matter how much they strain the imagination, can in no way lay claim to the honour of a sublime presentation, if they do not leave behind them a temper of mind which, though it be only indirectly, has an inﬂuence upon the consciousness of the mind's strength and resoluteness in respect of that which carries with it pure intellectual purposiveness (the supersensible).