and by this the will of a rational being, although as belonging to the world of sense it recognizes itself as necessarily subject to the laws of causality like other efficient causes; yet, at the same time, on another side, namely, as a being in itself, is conscious of existing in and being determined by an intelligible order of things; conscious not by virtue of a special intuition of itself, but by virtue of certain dynamical laws which determine its causality in the sensible world; for it has been elsewhere proved that if freedom is predicated of us, it transports us into an intelligible order of things.
-Aldi berean erakusten du egitate hori nahimenaren askatasunaren kontzientziarekin era banaezinean dagoela lotuta, harekin bat dela ere bai; eta horren bidez zerizan arrazoidun baten nahimenak bere zerizan hori sentsuen munduko zati gisa halabeharrez kausalitatearen legeen menpe ezagutzen duen arren beste kausa eraginkorrak bezala, aldi berean eremu praktikoan, hots, berbaitango zerizana den aldetik bere buruaz jabetzen da gauzen ordena adimenduzko bateko izate determinagarri gisa, ez bere buruaren begiespen berezi baten arabera, baizik eta haren kausalitatea sentsuen munduan determina dezaketen lege dinamiko jakin batzuen arabera; izan ere, beste leku batean nahikoa frogatu da askatasunak, egozten zaigunean, gauzen adimenduzko ordena batera eramaten gaituela.