138 SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE ORGANISM 



combination and of all its changes is not a law or any 

 combination of laws taught us by physics and chemistry, 

 but rests upon entelechy, as does the reason of the origin 

 of any kind of machine that results from acting. We 

 therefore propose to give the name intensive manifold- 

 ness to all kinds of entelechies or psychoids : there is, 

 in fact, something " manifold " in them, but the elements 

 of the manifoldness are neither one beside the other in 

 space nor one after the other in time. We may say that 

 entelechy is manifold in thought but simple as a natural 

 agent. 



As being an intensive manifoldness entelechy belongs to 

 the general sphere of dynamic teleology : there is some- 

 thing teleological in its very work, whether this work be 

 directed towards the normality of an organic individual, 

 with regard to form or function existence in space being 

 included in the meaning of the term " normality " or 

 whether, as in real acting, the boundaries of mere normality 

 are broken. Acting, in fact the work of the " artist " 

 in the widest sense of that term, not only " is ' : but 

 creates, and entelechy creates through the artist. 



Here we meet again the difference between a product 

 of entelechy that is itself the point of manifestation of 

 entelechy the organism and a product of entelechy that 

 is a machine and is unable to perform further entelechian 

 acts itself : " acting has gone over into its product" (" Die 

 Tatigkeit ist in ihr Produkt libergegangen "), to use a 

 phrase applied by Hegel. We shall have to say more 

 about this later on. 



Once more we say that entelechy or the psychoid has 

 nothing of a " psychical ' nature : in the psychical sphere 



