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Thus the transcendental and only determinate conception of God, which is presented to us by speculative reason, is in the strictest sense deistic. But this problem does not concern reason in its practical use; and we have, therefore, in a canon of pure reason, to do with only two questions, which relate to the practical interest of pure reason; Is there a God? The third idea of pure reason, containing the hypothesis of a being which is valid merely as a relative hypothesis, is that of the one and all-sufficient cause of all cosmological series, in other words, the idea of God. As we are wont to understand by the term God not merely an eternal nature, the operations of which are insensate and blind, but a Supreme Being, who is the free and intelligent author of all things, and as it is this latter view alone that can be of interest to humanity, we might, in strict rigour, deny to the deist any belief in God at all, and regard him merely as a maintainer of the existence of a primal being or thing--the supreme cause of all other things. When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neither encreases nor diminishes. These again have a still higher end--the answer to the question, what we ought to do, if the will is free, if there is a God and a future world.