Spirit and Progressive Reason

According to the Critique of Judgment, Spirit is the animating principle of an original process that produces exemplary works.  So, if, as Kant suggests at #5, Spirit and Reason are one and the same, Pure Practical Reason is, likewise, an animating principle of innovative, exemplary conduct.  As such, the maxim-universalization prescribed in its law is an example-setting, not an inclination-constraining, formula.  Now, while the interpretation of Reason as creative seems at odds with the deontological, and, even, conformist, tenor of the Groundwork and the 2nd Critique, it is more consonant with the progressive model of Reason that he presents in the Second Thesis of the Idea for Universal History: "Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of all its powers beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects."  Noteworthy in this characterization is its brief glimpse of Reason as indefinitely progressive, and, therefore, as not only transcending any status quo, but as unconstrained by any utopian telos that retrospectively converts progress into a determinate 'history', such as the one that he eventually introduces, in anticipation of Hegel's and Marx'.