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Man is born in a dungeon. A member of a royal, but fallen and dethroned race, he finds himself from the very first under the power of the evil one. He indubitably has a certain amount of freedom. He need not fall to every single sin which approaches him. But although he has freedom in and under sin, yet he has no freedom from sin. He has a relative freedom of movement within his dungeon. To some extent he can choose the place in this dungeon where he will sit down. But to burst open the door of the prison, that is beyond his power.
Erich Sauer, The King of the Earth