Hence if that ideality of space and time is not assumed, solely Spinozi remains, in which space and time are essential determinations of the original being itself, while the things dependent upon it (hence also we ourselves) are not substances but merely accidents inhering in it; for if these things exist merely as its effects in time, which would be the condition of their existence in themselves, then the actions of these beings would also have to be merely his actions performed by somewhere and sometime.