'What then, I only a plaything of circumstance? I ---? Whence comes the conviction that 'you did that, you were the cause of that, not nature or the impact of alien forces ? ... Might it not be a hint given by nature to the human soul, that the soul is a substance, though not born independent, but with a movement, an instinct within, to work its way up to independence; to separate itself out, as it were, from this great mass of intertwined creation and to establish itself as a being existing for itself ...'

Lenz