324 SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE ORGANISM 



taken by themselves, could only be of practical or emotional 

 interest. 



Thus it is from the study of the living individual only, 

 that we have so far gained elemental principles in biology. 

 The analysis of individual morphogenesis and of individual 

 inheritance has yielded us the concept of entelechy as the 

 chief result of the first part of our lectures. We shall be 

 able to get more proofs of the autonomy of the individual 

 life in the beginning of the second part ; indeed, the 

 beginning of that part will bring us to a full understanding 

 of what the living individual is, and what it is not. And 

 then the real philosophy of life, that is, the philosophy of 

 the individual, will occupy us for the greater half of our 

 lectures of next summer. 



