The conclusion I drew at the end of the previous chapter was that there is a tension in Expressionism between two strands of argument. Deleuze argues that freedom can be identified with acquiescence to a universal world order that we have come to understand. But he also suggests that knowledge leads to freedom because it helps us to shape our environment. I proposed that the two tendencies are brought together in the assertion that knowledge or reason leads to, and perhaps is, the individual's ability to shape the environment in a way consistent with that individual's nature. An environment suiting the individual's nature will liberate the individual from passive passions and enable that individual to contemplate the world and its necessary laws of organisation. I will be arguing that this rather archaic attempt to resolve the problem of freedom in a causally determined world does not deliver an acceptable account of agency.