One is here taking account only of the necessity of the connection of events in a time series as it develops according to natural law, whether the subject in whom this elapsing occurs is called automaton materiale inasmuch as the machinery is driven by matter, or, with Leibniz, automaton spiritua inasmuch as it is driven by presentations; and if the freedom of our will were none other than the latter kind (say, psychological and comparative freedom, not simultaneously transcendental,.e., absolute, freedom), then it would basically be no better than the freedom of a turnspit, which, once it has been wound up, also performs its motions on its own.