Now, in this regard the rational being can rightly say concerning every unlawful action which he commits that he could have omitted it, even though as appearance it is sufficiently determined in the past and is to this extent unfailingly necessary; for, this action, with everything past that determines it, belongs to a single phenomenon of his character the character which he on his own imparts to himself and according to which he on his own imputes to himself, as a cause independent of all sensibility, the causality of those appearances.