Were this conjecture that is, the conjecture that a part of the world we find is determined through freedom, as a theoretical principle to be confirmed, and were it to turn out that it is precisely this part of the world that constitutes the sphere of the objects of our duties then it would follow that the law of freedom, which addresses consciousness as a practical law, would only be a continuation of what that same law of freedom, as a theoretical principle, had already initiated, though without any consciousness thereof on the part of the intellect.