I do not even see how they are to evade the contradiction that they perpetrate when they regard existence in time as a determination attaching necessarily to finite things in themselves, while God is the cause of this existence: for he still cannot be the cause of time (or of space) itself (because time must be presupposed as a necessary a priori condition of the existence of things), and consequently his causality in regard to the existence of these things must itself be conditioned in terms of time; and th all the contradictions against the concepts of his infinity and independence must unavoidably arise.