Here a particular kind of motivation is privileged, which is designated by the expression theoretical interest in objectively real being/' Objective nature, or its objectively true being in itself, as a subject matter for science, is of course also a personal accomplishment or rather the idea of such an accomplishment, the accomplishment of a method which bears within itself the infinite idea, the idea of an infinite process of perfection namely, as the real in itself of nature which is idealiter continually determined, or more and more perfectly determined, through the natural scientific method.