 Fechner writes that it is the purpose of his work to show how plants are part of a world ensouled by God (Nanna: xiii). It then seems as if panpsychism can be proven simply from the omnipresence of God. But Fechner explicitly rejects this strategy because it would make the question of the soul of plants depend on general metaphysical questions, such as the relationships between God and nature or mind and body (Nanna: 7). Furthermore, even if we could prove the omnipresence of the divine mind, Fechner adds, it still would not prove that each individual thing is conscious. It would still be possible for the divine mind to be omnipresent in nature even though no individual thing is conscious (Nanna: 3). For these reasons, Fechner will investigate the question of the soul of plants on its own, apart from any general metaphysics; he asks: What evidence do we have for the common view that only humans and animals but not plants have souls? 