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Without the control of criticism, reason is, as it were, in a state of nature, and can only establish its claims and assertions by war. We begin by hypostatizing the principle of systematic unity, and by giving an anthropomorphic determination to the conception of a Supreme Intelligence, and then proceed forcibly to impose aims upon nature. Can we imagine it possible, that while human nature remains the same, men will ever become entirely indifferent to their power, riches, beauty or personal merit, and that their pride and vanity will not be affected by these advantages? No object, in the vast variety of nature, will, in any disposition, produce any passion without these relations. Without the control of criticism, reason is, as it were, in a state of nature, and can only establish its claims and assertions by war. That is, we must cogitate it only as an unknown substratum of the systematic unity, order, and finality of the world--a unity which reason must employ as the regulative principle of its investigation of nature. For as it was found that mathematical conclusions all proceed according to the principle of contradiction (which the nature of every apodeictic certainty requires), people became persuaded that the fundamental principles of the science also were recognized and admitted in the same way. There is a general course of nature in human actions, as well as in the operations of the sun and the climate.