But if, on the contrary, you were to ask Priestley, who is devoted only to the principles of the empirical use of reason and is disinclined to all transcendental speculation, what sort of motives he had for tearing down two such pillars of all religion as the freedom and immortal ity of our soul (the hope of a future life is according to him merely the expectation of a miracle of resurrection), he, who is himself a pious and Bestimmung Sache, used in this sense throughout the remainder of this section.