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other words, single stages. What about the manifestation of 

 each stage by entelechy ? We may say here briefly, I believe, 

 that the spatial existence of, say, the stage A affects entelechy 

 with respect to its performance of the next act leading to 

 stage B. Thus morphogenesis and not morphogenesis alone 

 becomes a series of events that occur between matter 

 and entelechy, and vice versa} 



The Affection of the Psychoid 



As to the affection of the psychoid or the entelechy 

 of real acting by external inorganic events, we must not 

 forget that the concept of " normality ' comes in here only 

 so far as a certain actual liking and willing takes the 

 place of normality ; to will a certain thing at a certain 

 time is " normal " for the psychoid at that time. 



If we restrict our analysis to such acting as ends in 

 a distinctly visible result, say an object of art or of 

 handicraft, we may say : the psychoid, its specific willing 

 being given, is affected by the very specificity of combination 

 of what there is, compared with what there ought to be 

 according to its willing. In this way a printer will always 

 take up his work at the point where he left it the day 

 before. A similar view would hold with respect to acting 

 in general. 



Psychologically all passivity, or rather receptivity of 

 entelechy with regard to external changes, is expressed by 



1 We avoid by this formulation the difficult concept of an intra-entelechian 

 "causality," which plays its part, for instance, in Lotze's writings in a 

 very different form and terminology, of course. It must be granted that 

 introspective psychology might seem to lend support to such a concept we 

 shall speak ourselves of an " intra-psychical series" on a later occasion- 

 but it is better avoided by the philosophy of nature. 



