That is the crux of the matter.
Thus in presence of the problem which is the crux of materialism, the origin of consciousness, he first propounds a gratuitous hypothesis that everything has mind, and then gives up the origin of conscious mind after all.
The crux of the difficulty was the doctrine of the supernatural, the relation between revealed and natural religion.
This is a real crux in the gospel of John.
Here we come to the crux of Fichte's system, which is only partly cleared up in the Rechtslehre and Sittenlehre.