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that now we understand vitalistic becoming on the basis of 

 our most intimate psychological experience. The Ego feels 

 itself to be the vitalistic agent. So the common view 

 asserts, and so our analysis has shown. 



This " self-feeling ' : ' and " understanding ' will form the 

 starting-point of what is to follow. 



In fact, the common opinion about life-phenomena, 

 which of course is neither analytical nor theoretical in any 

 sense, claims that " I ' can move my body by my " will," 

 and that every living being has a so-called " soul " by which 

 it can do the same. This view, suggested by ordinary 

 unscientific experience, can now be said to have been 

 transferred from a non-analytical and non-theoretical to an 

 analytical and theoretical sphere, and to have been proved 

 and psychologically justified in this sphere. In fact, " I ' 

 am a link in the uni vocally determined series of pheno- 

 mena, so far as I " will " ; my volition is both influenced and 

 influencing. 



I am conscious of this faculty of my willing in quite 

 an immediate manner, not through experiences but only on 

 the occasion of experience. And this experience, which, so 

 to say, awakes my knowledge of willing, is always of a very 

 peculiar sort. Whenever any state of the phenomenological 

 reality is either liked or disliked, my volition comes into 

 action as far as seems suitable in this particular case. 

 And I am conscious of yet more concerning my power of 

 willing : I know that by my will there can result external 

 events which end in typical complications of elemental 

 realities, and that these complications are not referable in 

 any way to other complications pre-existing in space. 



My power of volition is thus the only immanent and 



