All that can belong to a creature with regard to hope for this share would be the consciousness of his tested attitude, so that, on the basis of the progress that he has thus far made from the worse to the morally better, and of the immutable resolve which has thereby become famili to him, he may hope for a further uninterrupted continuati of this progress, however far his existen may extend, even beyond this life; and thus he can Sittengesetz here, moralisches Gesetz repeatedly above.