a mere tautology
And? Are tautologies banned in this community? What's the problem here?
But once we come to know this law, which acts (as Marx pointed out a thousand times) independently of our will and our mind
And our mind, eh? And our mind. Engels is not talking about what we're talking about here.
The mastery of nature manifested in human practice is a result of an objectively correct reflection within the human head of the phenomena and processes of nature, and is proof of the fact that this reflection (within the limits of what is revealed by practice) is objective, absolute, and eternal truth."
Again, Engels is in perfect agreement with me here. There is still no free will.