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be called an organism in itself, it would be required that 

 disturbances of this organism should be repaired by force 

 of the whole. But nothing of this sort exists : there are 

 " regulations " in social life, as, for instance, when a business 

 that needs workers attracts them by offering better payment, 

 whilst an overcrowded business readily parts with work- 

 people : but all this happens for the sake of the individual's 

 liking and happiness, and for no other reason, as far as we 

 know. There certainly is a little more of real organisation 

 in the " State " of Hymenoptera. 



Morality as a Supra-personal Factor 



But now let us ask another more general question : Does 

 anything new appear in nature besides mere acting, when 

 there is not one single acting human being, but a community, 

 or at least two human beings on the scene ? Such a new 

 factor, of course, would play its part in social life, though 

 not in a properly " historical " sense. 



We may also ask like this : Is a really complete 

 philosophy of acting already created or at least prepared by 

 the analysis we have given of it ? It seems to me that one 

 chief thing is wanting still for such a preparation, and that 

 this chief thing is the elemental entity that is concerned in 

 historical and social becoming, besides the two principles 

 of acting we have analysed. 



Entelechy in morphogenesis, metabolism, and instinctive 

 life tends to guarantee the specificity of form and function ; 

 entelechy in acting, our psychoid, guarantees the realisation 

 of what is "liked" to speak a little incorrectly, but 

 quite intelligibly by the performer of the action. In 



