If the aim of the drive for self sufficiency is the self sufficiency of reason as such or in general, and if the latter can be presented dargestellt only in and through individuals, etc., then it is necessarily a matter of utter indifference to me whether I present this drive or it is instead presented by A or or C; for reason in general is presented in each of these cases, since these latter individuals also belong to the one undivided realm of reason.