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The possession and power of will are only assumptions, yet they are not altogether false assumptions. He who holds the reins still has a limited power of free choice left after the immense impulsions of temperament and environment, of character and society, of mental capacity and hereditary race have done with him.

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 4 : Free Will, Responsibility, and The World-Idea > # 83