Thus we comprehend how it is possible to a priori that the moral law inasmuch as it excludes the inclinations and the propensity to make them the supreme practical condition,.e., self love, from any participati in the supreme legislation can exert on feeling an effect that on the one hand is merely negative but on the other hand, specifically in regard to the restricting basis of pure practical reason, is positive; and for this no special kind of feeling need be assumed, under the name of a practical or moral feeling, as preceding the moral law and lying at its basis.