“A will, which should determine this, would contradict itself; for cases can occur, in which a man needs the love and sympathy of others, and in which he, by virtue of such a natural law, evolved from his own will, would deprive himself of all hope of the help, which he desires.” Similarly in the Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft (Part I., vol. i., chap. 2, p. 123; R., p. 192): “If every one were to regard others' distress with total indifference, and you were to belong to such an order of things; would you be there with the concurrence of your will?” Quam temere in nosmet legem sancimus iniquam!

one could reply. These passages sufficiently show in what sense the phrase, “to be able to wish,” in Kant's formula is to be understood. But it is in the Metaphysische Anfangsgr�nde der