, we will have the idea of a highest being to thank for this so far as we reach it, but we can never get around the universal laws of nature, so as to regard this purposiveness of nature as contingent and hyperphysical in its origin, without contradicting ourselves, since it was only by taking these laws as our aim that things were grounded on the idea; for we were not justified in as suming a being above nature with the properties we are thinking of, but only in grounding things on the idea of this being in order to regard apn Princip zweckdhnliche Princip