; but that our images, remembrances, and consciousnesses of our actions are
phænomena
. Now the
phænomenon
is in time, and an effect: but the
noumenon
is not in time any more than it is in space. The guilt has been before we are even conscious of the action; therefore an original sin (that is, a sin universal and essential to man as man, and yet guilt, and yet choice, and yet amenable to punishment), may be at once true and yet in direct contradiction to all our reasonings derived from
phænomena
, that is, facts of time and space. But we ought not to apply the categories of appearance to the
