But I cannot hope to bring this good about except through the harmony of my will with that of a holy and benign originator of the world; and although the concept of the highest good, as that of a whole in which the greatest happiness is presented as linked in the most exact proportion with the greatest degree of moral perfection (possible in creatures), includes also my own happiness, yet the determining basis of the will that is instructed to further the highest good is not this happiness but the moral law (which, on the contrary, severe restricts my unbounded longing for happiness to conditions).