We saw in the preceding chapter that everything that offers itself as object of the will prior to the moral law is excluded from the determining bases of the will the will under the name of the unconditionally good by this law itself as the supreme condition of practical reason; and we saw that the mere practical form, which consists in the suitability of maxims for universal legislation, first determines what is good in itself and absolutely and is the basis for the maxim of a pure will, such a will alone being good in every respect.