For the variety and diversity of empirical laws might be so great that while it would still be possible in part to connect our perceptions in one experience in accordance with particular laws that we happen to have discovered already, it would never be possible to bring these empirical laws themselves together under a common principle, if it were the case, as is perfectly possible (as far as the understanding can tell us a priori), that the variety and diversity of these laws, and of the corresponding forms of nature, were infinitely great and we were thus confronted by a crude and chaotic aggregate revealing no trace of system whatsoever, even if we still had to presuppose a system in accordance with transcendental laws.