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there is only my Ego, at least for the critical and idealistic 

 philosopher. "I ' have sensations and likings and judg- 

 ments and volitions, but nature as the object of my 

 perceiving and judging and wishing only has agents or 

 factors relating to its structure and type of change ; 

 entelechies and psychoids are some of these factors. 



It is true, we occasionally have taken analytical expres- 

 sions from psychology in order to describe these agents by 

 analogy, and we shall do so again. But our object in 

 doing so was, and will be, exclusively to analyse the kind 

 and degree of manifoldness concerned in entelechy ; for 

 this kind and degree of manifoldness resembles to a great 

 extent the manifoldness of the whole of the psychical 

 phenomenon. In this way psychology simply becomes a 

 method in our studies. 



For a more intimate study of the nature of the mani- 

 foldness embraced in entelechy, I think it advisable to 

 separate the different kinds of entelechies, according to 

 whether so-called " experience " plays a part in them or 

 not : the entelechies of morphogenesis and of instinct l 

 are wanting in the criterion of the " historical basis of 

 reacting," psychoids are endowed with it. 



SECONDARY AND PRIMARY KNOWING AND WILLING 



It is by no means difficult to get a good idea of part of 

 the manifoldness concerned in " psychoids ' by a psycho- 

 logical analysis. In fact, we have merely to apply such 

 concepts as perceiving, liking, judging, willing to a psychoid 

 in a metaphorical manner in order to have a good picture 



1 Provided entelechy is concerned in instinctive life. See page 50. 



