From a possible future.

Is a state of affairs unthinkable in which the malefactor calls himself to account and publicly dictates his own punishment, in the proud feeling that he is thus honoring the law which he himself has made, that by punishing himself he is exercising his power, the power of the lawgiver [...] Such would be the criminal of a possible future, who, to be sure, also presupposes a future lawgiving - one founded on the idea 'I submit only to the law which I myself have given, in great things and small.'

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