In the realm of the doer where actions must be chosen and consequences guessed at, the distinctions arrived at come together in a moral universe. Every act produces a chain of consequences both intentional and unintentional, but this distinction counts for little in determining the length and bearing of such a chain. Whether one follows one's own lights or relies on those handed down by the race, what one has learned, the intelligence one has acquired, determines the figure one cuts in this world. Everyone has a possession in such a life, but as something given and so effectively only on loan, which is why it matters what is done with it. This moral subject is something like a soul, and it is foolish to try to reduce it to a mental formation beyond good and evil. Its guilt or innocence are real at a level deeper than the speculative intellect.