But if somethi is an irr missible duty, transgression of which violates the moral law in itself and without regard for human well being and, as it were, tramples on this law's holiness (duties of this sort are usually called duties toward God, because in him we think the ideal of holiness in substan, then we dedicate to the compliance with it compliance at the sacrifice of everything that might have any val for the most fervent of all our inclinations the maximally perfect deep respect, and we find our soul strengthened and elevated by such an example if we can convince ourselves throu it that human nature is capable of so great an elevation over everything that nature might, by way of incentives, bring forth as an opposite.