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morphogenesis the search for a really immanent-teleological 

 or entelechian factor would have become a scientific task 

 an unending task perhaps. For, whenever we find typical 

 constellations of the statical-teleological class, we are forced 

 to conclude that there must have been in some former time 

 some autonomous intrinsic activity. The category of in- 

 dividuality forces us to conclude in this manner. 



This consideration, of course, is superseded, as soon as 

 we have proved the entelechian factor to be immediately at 

 work in every single originating organic individual ; but 

 it will not be without importance for our future discussions 

 to have alluded to it here. 



Different Types of Entelechian Effects 



A further distinction will also prove to be valuable for 

 what is to follow. We have called the entelechian factor 

 of morphogenesis typical with regard to order, whilst the 

 psychoid, except when it resulted in products of art, was 

 typical with regard to sequence exclusively. Morphogenetic 

 entelechy always manifests itself in visible constellative 

 products the organisms. The psychoid may manifest itself 

 in such constellations, as in objects of art and handicraft, 

 but does not do so in everyday acting. But that does not 

 prove anything against the character of the typical specific 

 combination being realised in everyday action. The single 

 phases of a conversation are unities in spite of their not 

 being condensed, so to speak, in visibility. 



There is, indeed, one difference between visible constella- 

 tions whicli are the effect of entelechy and those which 

 result from acting. The first are points of manifestation of 

 vitalistic factors themselves at least as lonoj as life endures, 



