matter what interpretations Kant and his followers may give of it—the key to the main problem: Infinity (or freedom) is the means of measuring our own finite nature; with it man measures his own diameter. If this means is previously given him (in nature), he is able, to the extent that he grasps it (in spirit), to take possession of it and steer himself. His autonomy proves itself precisely in this possession of his diameter. Later on, Schelling stresses even more emphatically the indeterminacy of