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of what is happening in every natural event where 

 psychoids come into play of course a picture only, in 

 the merely descriptive meaning of the word. 



Let us speak of secondary " knowing and willing " in 

 the case of those acts of a psychoid which go on upon 

 its historical basis, its " experience." These two psycho- 

 logical terms seem to be sufficient to describe adequately 

 what happens, as it is well known from pure psychological 

 analysis that liking and judging judging about the most 

 " suitable " means among those which are known to promote 

 the end are never wanting whenever the act of knowing 

 and volition occurs ; psychical elemental functions are 

 inseparable in fact and only separable in thought; to 

 name a few of them therefore is, for the purposes of our 

 analogy, to name them all. 



The word " secondary," as applied to certain characters 

 of the manifoldness of one type of entelechy, the psychoid, 

 seems to imply that there are also some " primary " character- 

 istics of a similar kind ; in studying the primary features 

 of entelechies our analysis will become far more difficult. 



It is worth while to notice, in the first place, that 

 primary characters are not only possessed by the entelechy 

 of morphogenesis, metabolism, and instinct, but in some 

 measure by psychoids also. That they are possessed by 

 morphogenetic, physiological, and instinctive entelechies is 

 clear without any further deliberation. The manifestations 

 of these entelechies are " primary " : they occur either not 

 at all or perfectly the very first time ; all sorts of restitu- 

 tions and of instincts are instances of this primariness. 

 But how could " secondary ' faculties appear in the other 

 class of entelechies, the psychoids, endowed with the 



